The Texas Supreme Court unanimously ruled last week that while the state鈥檚 funding formula may not be perfect, it meets minimal state constitutional requirements.
鈥淥ur judicial responsibility is not to second-guess or micromanage Texas education policy or to issue edicts from on high increasing financial inputs in hopes of increasing educational outputs,鈥� said Justice Don Willett in the ruling.
The challenge to the formula was brought by 600 school districts and the state鈥檚 charter schools. They argued that the state鈥檚 legislature had failed to meet its constitutional obligation to provide an adequate education to Texas鈥� 5 million students.
But the state argued that money is not 鈥減ixie dust鈥� that would magically fix schools and that the state outperforms neighboring states.
