Eleven more school districts have offered their support for a lawsuit against the state of South Dakota over education funding.  The school systems are not actually involved in the lawsuit. It was filed by a handful of parents and students.  Scott Abdallah, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, says the most recent school districts to voice support for increased education funding include Huron, Canton, Bison, Pollock, Warner, Hyde, Lyman, McIntosh, Wall, Northwestern, and Conde.  Abdallah says more than half of the school systems in the state support the lawsuit.

He says school officials were frustrated by the continued lack of progress in this year's Legislature on education funding.  The trial over school funding is scheduled to begin September second, and officials believe it could last two months.  The lawsuit maintains that the state is not meeting its constitutional duty to adequately fund schools.  It says schools would need an increase of $133 million to $405 million a year to be properly funded.