Questions linger in Arizona education funding suit

PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix man who won a federal court ruling finding Arizona distributed more than $344 million to schools since 2016 without Congressional approval might seek hundreds of millions of additional dollars for education funding.

Michael Pierce's attorney Andrew Jacob on Monday told U.S. District Judge Neil Wake that he believes about $300 million dollars would've gone to schools from the state land trust prior to voter-approved changes to a funding formula that the judge since found were made without requisite Congressional approval.

"If the state had followed the law and been held to it, that money would've come out of fiscal year 2013 to 2014, 2015, and we believe it should come out now," Jacob said.