Anthony Lobato, as an Individual and as Parent and Natural Guardian of Taylor Lobato and Alexa Loba — Hobbs, J…

Summary

Justice Hobbs, dissenting, would conclude that Colorado's public-school finance system violates the Education Clause because it does not rationally relate to establishing and maintaining a thorough and uniform system of free public schools. He reasoned that the constitutional mandate concerns the actual quality and effect of education, not merely the existence of uniformly applicable statutes, and that the record showed substantial underfunding and disparities in facilities, instruction, student services, and educational opportunity. Chief Justice Bender, dissenting, likewise would affirm the trial court's determination that the financing system is constitutionally inadequate and would require legislative reform.