| Rural school districts who sued the
state claiming it has an unfair system of paying for education
have withdrawn the lawsuit.
The Consortium for Adequate School Funding in Georgia plans
other action, including a suit in another state court. Opening
arguments were scheduled in Fulton County before Superior Court
Judge Elizabeth Long on Oct. 21, but the case was transferred to
Judge Craig L. Schwall.
Consortium executive director Joseph G. Martin Jr. said the
group feared more delay in the 4-year-old case and was concerned
it "would not receive a fair hearing under the new
judge."
The lawsuit claims small, poor counties don't raise enough from
local taxes to compensate for more than $1 billion in cuts to
state education spending in recent years.
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