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Lakeview rulings frame Arkansas legislature’s adequacy work, BLR attorney tells Education Committee
Summary
A Bureau of Legislative Research attorney told the Senate Education Committee the Lakeview school‑funding litigation and Arkansas Constitution Article 14 require an ongoing, evidence‑based adequacy study; the legislature — not the court — defines adequacy and can change the funding matrix.
Taylor Lloyd, staff attorney for the Bureau of Legislative Research, told the Senate Education Committee that the Lakeview case and Article 14 of the Arkansas Constitution create the legal baseline for the state’s adequacy study and the legislature’s duties.
Lloyd summarized Lakeview’s multi‑decade history, saying the chancery court and later the Arkansas Supreme Court repeatedly found constitutional deficiencies in the state’s school‑funding system in the 1990s and…
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