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Attorney General Jeff Jackson and 24 other states sued to prevent the federal government from cutting funds for North Carolina’s schools and educators. Without the $6.8 billion in nationwide federal funds – which Congress has already approved – North Carolina’s schools will lose more than $165 million in public education funding and nearly 1,000 educators across the state will lose their jobs. The cuts make up nearly 10 percent of all of the state’s federal educational funding.
Legislative leaders argue there's no good reason for the N.C. Supreme Court to stp into a dispute now over $1.7 billion in court-ordered education funding. Republican legislators filed a new brief Monday. It opposes a request from the N.C. Department of Justice and other parties backing court-ordered funding.
The N.C. Court of Appeals has thrown out a retired trial judge's order forcing state officials to transfer $1.7 billion out of the state treasury for education-related spending.
A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education.
Budgets passed with bipartisan support in both chambers of the General Assembly fund a number of provisions in the ongoing Leandro school funding legal case, but critics still contend the money falls short of the mark.
