Leandro

Superior Court Judge James Ammons will preside over the long-running case known as "Leandro."

The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued its decision in the landmark Leandro case, ordering the state legislature to spend $1.75 billion in public school funding.

WUNC education reporter Liz Schlemmer speaks with two legal experts who have followed the Leandro case since it started in 1994.

The landmark Leandro case is headed to the North Carolina Supreme Court for the fourth time in its 28 year history. Advocates rallied at the statehouse Saturday to call for the state to spend $6.8 billion to improve public education.

Over the past decades, state funding for schools has fluctuated. To understand what that looks like, WUNC's education reporter Liz Schlemmer spoke with two veteran teachers.

A decades-old education case lands before the North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday. We're aiming to to tell you everything you need to know about the Leandro case.

Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is back in the headlines after an old facebook post emerged. North Carolina’s primary is less than two months away. And there is a new judge in the decades old Leandro Case. On this episode of the WUNC Politics Podcast, Rob Schofield and Donna King discuss some of the week’s biggest stories.

Superior Court Judge David Lee has been overseeing the lawsuit called “Leandro” since late 2016. But this week state Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby instead assigned special Superior Court Judge Mike Robinson to evaluate school spending in a new state budget law in light of Lee's November order directing $1.75 billion be moved from state coffers to government agencies.

North Carolina's justices have agreed to accelerate the process to determine whether a trial judge had authority to order $1.75 billion in taxpayer money be spent to address inequities in the public schools.

This week in state politics saw another significant development in the Leandro Case, while Governor Roy Cooper blocked an election law from going into effect. Host Jeff Tiberii reviews the latest happenings with Aisha Dew and Mitch Kokai.