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SILVER v. HALIFAX COUNTY BD. OF COM'RS

No. COA16-313.

805 S.E.2d 320 (2017)

Lotonya SILVER, individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of Brianna Silver, Larry Silver, III and Dominick Silver; Brenda Sledge, individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of Alicia Jones; Felicia Scott, individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of Jamier Scott; Halifax County Branch #5401, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and Coalition for Education and Economic Security, Plaintiffs, v. The HALIFAX COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed: September 19, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

UNC Center for Civil Rights, by Mark Dorosin and Elizabeth Haddix , Pittsboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Yarborough, Winters & Neville, Fayetteville, by Garris Neil Yarborough ; Office of County Attorney, by County Attorney M. Glynn Rollins, Jr. , for defendant-appellee.

Youth Justice Project of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, by K. Ricky Watson, Jr. and Peggy Nicholson , for Public Schools First NC, amicus curiae.

Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc., by George R. Hausen, Jr. ; Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc.-Advocates for Children's Services, by Seth Ascher and Jennifer Story , for Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc., amicus curiae.

I. Introduction

The North Carolina Supreme Court described the State's constitutional obligation to provide each student a "sound basic education" in Leandro v. State1, which was filed in 1997; the Halifax County Board of Education was one of several plaintiffs in that case. In Leandro...

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