State's role in a settlement of the LR school deseg appeal

Pat Lynch believes the Lake View decision coupled with the Arkansas Constitution (specifically Article 14) requires the state to intervene in the Little Rock School Board's charge to negotiate a settlement with John Walker's appeal of the decision that the district has attained unitary status. As an example of a waste of state resources that aren't being spent on instruction, he notes that Arkansas taxpayers, including those of us far from Pulaski County, spend about $60 million annually for the Pulaski County desegregation settlement. In other terms, that's a cent and a half of the state's grocery tax and better than 1% of general revenue.