State Will Not Seek Legal Fees

     PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley
says the state will not seek to collect legal fees from parents who
filed an unsuccessful lawsuit challenging the state's system for
funding school districts.
     The South Dakota Supreme Court earlier this month upheld the
constitutionality of the school funding system, rejecting arguments
that the current arrangement does not provide enough money to
provide students with an adequate education.
     A handful of parents were the official plaintiffs in the
lawsuit, but about 100 school districts helped pay for the court
challenge.
     At the trial level, a judge had ordered that the parents pay
nearly $60,000 in legal costs.
     Jackley says the state will not seek to collect those costs
because the money would come from the parents or taxpayers of
school districts.