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The North Carolina Constitution designates the legislature as the branch of government with the power to determine how state taxpayer dollars are collected and spent. It’s a fundamental fact taught to North Carolina schoolchildren as early as third grade. Recently, children and adults alike witnessed the courts uphold this principle in the long-running
Leandro v. State of North Carolina case.
The saga of
Leandro – a school finance “adequacy” case about the state constitutional requirement of “the opportunity to receive a sound, basic education” – has been subject to multiple hearings, orders, and reviews during the two decades it has been sitting in a trial court. The plaintiff, Robb Leandro, is now a 40-year-old attorney at one of the most prominent law firms in North Carolina.
On Monday, March 15, defendants in the long-running
Leandro lawsuit, in consultation with plaintiffs in the case, submitted a document called the Comprehensive Remedial Plan to Superior Court Judge David Lee. The plan was mandated in consent orders Lee issued in January 2020 and September.
All parties in the case have agreed to the plan’s components. Lee will next call a hearing for the case, although details haven’t been decided.
Lee, the court-appointed overseer of the
Leandro case, approved a plan Sept. 1, calling for millions more in education spending to meet North Carolina’s constitutional obligation to provide a sound, basic education to every child.
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