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COMMITTEE FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY v. STATE

No. 79813.

967 S.W.2d 62 (1998)

COMMITTEE FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY, et al., Appellants, Lee's Summit School District R-VII, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE of Missouri, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

April 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex Bartlett, Jefferson City, for Appellants.

Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., Robert Presson, Asst. Aty. Gen., John Munich, Deputy Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for Respondents.

Kenneth Brostron, St. Louis, Michael Delaney, Kansas City, John Gianoulakis, St. Louis, Shirley Keeler, Kansas City, Robert McClintock, St. Louis, for Plaintiffs.

WHITE, Judge.

Appellants argue that Missouri's public school finance system is unconstitutional because it does not allocate twenty-five percent of "state revenue" for the support of public schools.1 The trial court ruled that certain receipts did not constitute state revenue for purposes of this section and, therefore, upheld the constitutionality of the current funding scheme. Because we find that funds received from the federal government...

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