United States Supreme Court
Zuni Pub. Sch. Dist. v. Dep't of Educ., 05-1508
The federal Impact Aid Act 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, for purposes of allowing offsets of federal impact aid to individual school districts. In a dispute over the proper equalization formula, lower courts' rejection of school districts' challenges to the Secretary of Education's applicable regulations is affirmed as certain statutory language in the Act permits the Secretary to identify the school districts that should be "disregard[ed]" by looking to the number of the district's pupils, as well as to the size of the district's expenditures per pupil.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/17/2007
- Published 04/17/2007
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- United States Supreme Court