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FAIR SCH. FINANCE COUN. OF OKLA. v. STATE

No. 56577.

746 P.2d 1135 (1987)

FAIR SCHOOL FINANCE COUNCIL OF OKLAHOMA, INC., an Oklahoma corporation, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE of Oklahoma; George Nigh, Governor of the State of Oklahoma; Leslie R. Fisher, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; State Board of Education; Harry Shackelford, Jack Mace, Seay Sanders, Dr. C.B. Wright, R.E. Carleton, and E.L. Collins, members of the State Board of Education; and Leo Winters, Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, Defendants-Appellees, and Independent School District No. 1 of Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, et al., Intervenors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected November 25, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. David Riggs, Dianne L. Smith, Messrs. Chapel, Wilkinson, Riggs, Abney & Henson, Tulsa, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jan Eric Cartwright, Atty. Gen., Kay Harley Jacobs, Judith Coleman Nichols, Asst. Attys. Gen., Oklahoma City, for defendants-appellees.

Joe L. Heaton, Messrs. Fuller, Tubb & Pomeroy, Oklahoma City, for intervenors-appellees.

Harry A. Woods, Jr., Mark S. Grossman, Messrs. Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, successor counsel for plaintiffs-appellants.

Duke Halley, Woodward, successor counsel for intervenors-appellees.

OPALA, Justice.

This case challenges the constitutionality of Oklahoma's system of financing public elementary and secondary schools. The litigation focuses upon disparities in taxable wealth among the various school districts as well as the effect of those differences upon the fiscal ability of the poorer districts to provide their students with educational resources and opportunities comparable to those of the more affluent...

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