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Welch: Suing state for funding best course of action
Brown vs. Board of Education launched U.S. school desegregation in 1954.
The attorney for the Hamilton County Department of Education cited the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday night as an example of what might happen if the local school board joins a larger lawsuit to get the state to fully fund its Basic Education Program (BEP), the formula it uses to fund public schools.
“I liken it to Brown vs. Board of Education,” attorney D. Scott Bennett said, referring to the court’s second Brown ruling in 1955, in which it called for desegregation to proceed “with all deliberate speed.”
“I think we may have reached the point … this time [for a court] to say, ‘Fund this with all deliberate speed,'” he said.