| 1. | State school funding systems have been upheld in 18 states since 1973.
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| 2. | As attorney general, he defended the state against challenges of the funding system.
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| 3. | As of January, 19 state supreme courts had ruled school funding systems unconstitutional.
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| 4. | But our claim is that there is a glitch in the funding system.
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| 5. | The state Supreme Court agreed, ruling last July that Arizona's school-funding system is unconstitutional.
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| 6. | What you wind up with is a two-tiered funding system.
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| 7. | It brought a more equitable funding system to localities and to different school sectors.
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| 8. | Other states, including neighboring Texas, have also seen their funding systems overturned in court.
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| 9. | Comprehensive public funding systems have been in effect in Arizona and Maine since 2000.
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| 10. | I would like to eliminate the federal funding system,
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