AG Hood seeks dismissal of Musgrove #MAEP lawsuit

Attorney General Jim Hood asks just to throw out school funding lawsuit (updated)

JACKSON, Mississippi — Attorney General Jim Hood is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 21 school districts that argues Mississippi owes them $230 million in education aid and demands an end to future shortfalls.

In papers filed Tuesday in Hinds County Chancery Court, Hood’s office wrote that even though a 2006 law says Mississippi’s school aid formula must be fully funded, that guarantee has no power to bind future legislatures.

“One session of elected legislators cannot dictate the discretionary budgeting and appropriation authority of a future session of elected legislators,” Hood’s office wrote.

Gulflive
10/7/14