A group of rural school districts that is suing the state for increased education funding appears to have a powerful new ally-House Speaker Glenn Richardson.

“It has always bothered me, and I hope it bothers you, that a kid born in one county can get a first-class education, but a kid two or three counties away does not. Luck of the draw,” Richardson said Thursday at an Atlanta Press Club Newsmaker luncheon.

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