Politics & Government
Court Orders Full Funding for Abbott Districts
Narrow 3-2 decision sure to spark off controversy and confrontation.
If it wasn’t already, the Abbott v. Burke saga is about to get uglier.
After years, if not decades, of relative consensus on the bench, the state Supreme Court today ruled in a narrow 3-2 opinion that the state must spend an estimated $500 million in additional funding next year in the 31 so-called Abbott districts.
The 89-page majority decision vanquished any predictions of a more measured ruling that would have brought along the two more conservative members of the court, Justices Helen Hoens and Roberto Rivera-Soto. Both offered dissenting opinions.
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The decision also likely rekindles the tensions between the high-poverty Abbott districts and the rest of the state.
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