Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Both sides in a lawsuit over state aid to local school districts are asking a judge to rule following a Jan. 14 hearing. Twenty-one school districts represented by former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove are seeking summary judgment in the case, while Attorney General Jim Hood earlier asked that the case be dismissed.
The suit in Hinds County Chancery Court asks a judge to order lawmakers to never again underfund the state funding formula, as well as to reimburse the districts what they've been shorted since 2009. The 21 districts, including Jackson, Greenville and Hattiesburg, are seeking $230 million.
Hood says that even though the 2006 Legislature passed a law saying that the state's school aid formula must be fully funded, that guarantee had no power to bind future legislatures.
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