Every child in North Carolina has a constitutional right to a sound basic education. This ruling is wrong for our students and for our state’s future.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday overturned its own 2022 decision in the long-running Leandro school funding case, potentially ending the decades-long quest to force the General Assembly to significantly increase school funding.
That decision had ordered the state to fund a multi-billion-dollar plan to improve the state’s school system, after decades’ worth of court rulings had established the state was failing to meet its constitutional obligation to give students a sound, basic education.
Read more in the article from WUNC News: North Carolina Supreme Court overturns Leandro school funding decision.