NC Supreme Court agrees to GOP lawmakers’ request to rehear Leandro school lawsuit

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted the request of Republican legislative leaders to revisit whether the courts can order the state to pay hundreds of millions to public schools. In a court order dated Oct. 20, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal filed by Sen. Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore that a trial judge lacked the jurisdiction to say the state owes schools $677.8 million. In its majority decision, Republican Associate Judge Phil Berger Jr. — the son of Sen. Berger — said many matters remain unresolved in the long-running Leandro school funding ...