“Carmichael and Ward are adamant that the bill the Legislature passed doesn’t meet the standards the Supreme Court order requires to provide roughly equal educational opportunity to students in rich and poor districts.

“’Instead it is a freeze of equalization payments at the current levels accomplished through the artifice of a ‘hold harmless’ provision that benefits wealthier school districts at the expense of poorer districts,’ the Carmichael-Ward protest says. ‘The bill also violates the constitutional requirement of equity by expanding Local Option Budget (LOB) authority only for districts wealthy enough to afford local property tax increases.’”

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