For the second time in less than a year, a new judge is taking over North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding case. Senior Resident Superior Court Judge James Ammons of Cumberland County will oversee the case moving forward.
More than $677 million of a court-ordered state education plan remains unfunded, according to new documents from state lawyers. The documents filed Monday respond to the N.C. Supreme Court’s latest ruling in the long-running Leandro case.
The state controller is objecting to a timeline for addressing the N.C. Supreme Court’s latest Leandro education funding order. Paperwork filed Monday with the trial judge in the case spells out the details.
At the conclusion of Wednesday’s oral argument, advocates supporting the plaintiff school districts called on the justices to order the disbursement of the necessary funds.
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