ZUNI PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. v. DEPT. OF EDUC.

No. 05-1508.

127 S.Ct. 1534 (2007)

550 U.S. 81

167 L.Ed.2d 449

ZUNI PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 89 et al., Petitioners, v. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 17, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald J. Van Amberg , Santa Fe, NM, for Petitioners.

Sri Srinivasan , Washington, D.C., for Federal Respondent.

Leigh M. Manasevit , Santa, Fe, NM, for State Respondent.

Ronald J. VanAmberg , C. Bryant Rogers , VanAmberg, Rogers, Yepa & Abeita, LLP, Santa Fe, NM, for Petitioner Zuni Public School District No. 89, George W. Kozeliski, Gallup, NM, for Petitioner Gallup-McKinley County Public School District No. 1.

Leigh M. Manasevit , Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of New Mexico, Jennifer S. Mauskapf , Brustein & Manasevit, Washington, DC, Willie R. Brown , New Mexico Public Education Department, Santa Fe, NM, New Mexico Public Education Department, for Respondent.

Kent D. Talbert , General Counsel, Stephen H. Freid , Mark Smith , Department of Education, Washington, D.C., Paul D. Clement , Peter D. Keisler , Assistant Attorney General, Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General, Sri Srinivasan , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Robert S. Greenspan , Peter R. Maier , Washington, D.C., for Federal Respondent.


A federal statute sets forth a method that the Secretary of Education is to use when determining whether a State's public school funding program "equalizes expenditures" throughout the State. The statute instructs the Secretary to calculate the disparity...

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