AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Nearly 18 months after Texas lawmakers cut $5.4 billion from public schools, districts are headed to court to argue that the resulting system is so inefficient and unfair that it violates the state Constitution. Lawyers say that simply restoring funding to levels prior to the 2011 legislative session won't be enough to fix the fundamentally flawed way Texas funds its schools. They point out that the cuts have come even as the state requires schools to prepare students for standardized tests that are getting more-difficult — and amid a statewide boom in the number of low-income students, who are especially costly to educate. But they also concede that simply putting the...
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