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Byline: Tom McAvoy
Apr. 25--DENVER--A five-week trial opened Monday in a lawsuit that seeks a court order requiring the state to finance adequate school facilities for children in Pueblo and five rural school districts.
Denver District Judge Paul Markson, presiding over the non-jury trial, granted class-action status to the construction-funding case on behalf of nearly 20,000 children in the six Southern Colorado districts.
They include Pueblo District 60 with 17,100 students, Lake County with 1,220, Las Animas with 725, Centennial with 355, Sanford with 360 and Aguilar with 170.
Their lawyers are Kathleen Gebhardt of Boulder, W. Randolph Barhart of Englewood and Steven Kaufmann of Denver.
They represent children and their parents, not the school districts specifically. Former District…