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Forty- two property-poor districts joined the defen dants in the suit as “interveners.” In a hearing Wednesday before the Fifth District Court of Appeals, the plaintiffs said they deserve to have the suit heard in Dallas County, where they live and where the orig inal four defendants are located. In October, State District Judge Anne Ashby transferred the case to Travis County and combined it with similar suits. Jeff Boyd, a lawyer with the state Attorney General’s office, told the three-jus tice appeals panel that Travis County is the appropriate venue because the case has statewide impact. “This is a suit asking for a court to say the whole statewide school system is uncon stitutional,” Boyd said. “The suit has noth ing to do with Dallas.” But plaintiff David Hopson said taxpay ers have not directly sued a state entity. In addition, he said, the case may be set on more neutral ground in Dallas because sim ilar suits tried in Austin have failed. “Conventional wisdom says Travis County has been unfair to taxpayers in school finance suits,” said Hopson, .who has a teenager attending private school in Dallas. a This is a suit asking for a court to say the whole statewide school system is un constitutional behind and need more money foredw The state’s 118 wealthier distm also pleading poverty. Many havet local property tax rates to the legal| making it hard to get more money and: ing them to cut programs and jobs. Plaintiff’s attorney Tom Ttw none of the 46 districts involved ini have requested a change of venue. He said that although legislate wrestling the issue, school finances be reformed without timely court actin “The legislature has never fixedii will never step up and bite the b some court tells them to step up andt* bullet,” he said. — Jeff Boyd lawyer in the state Attorney General's office to disarm, ha The House Public Iulucation ComBhides behind voted Tuesday to get rid of the statess funding system, sending a bill by Edi.Wtion in the pa< Chairman Kent Grusendorf to the Hi ber includec floor, where all 150 members will te graphs, inte chance to vote on it. The bill would end Robin Hood in! cers and The panel will rule on the change of venue after hearing arguments. Robin Hood is the name critics gave the state’s $26 billion-a-year school-funding system, which takes money from property wealthy districts and gives it to poorer ones as a method of giving all 4.1 million Texas school children an equal education. Still, many poor schools say they lag hut does not propose an alternative The state constitution prohibits It from having an income tax or a state pro; ty tax. Schools are primarily funded local property taxes and state money. The shifting of money from richtoi districts has been the subject of several: battles, including challenges by wealtlp tricts. A lawsuit filed by the Highland! district is pending in state district cowl HE BAT1 By Edit and D THE ASS( UNITED secretary of dying on ntelligence, security Cou o move lussein beca tions betweei NEWS IN BRIEF Convicted British citizen put to death HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The pleas of British citizens and government officials and appeals to the courts failed to keep two-time convicted killer John Elliott, who had dual U.S. and British citizenship, from the Texas death chamber. Elliott, 42, was quietly executed Tuesday night for using a chain to beat to death an 18-year-old Austin woman after she was raped almost 17 years ago. 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