BY DUNSTAN McNICHOL
Star-Ledger Staff

Attorneys for schoolchildren in 31 needy communities yesterday urged the state Supreme Court to deny Gov. Jon Corzine's effort to end the long-running Abbott vs. Burke lawsuit over public school aid and called the governor's new school funding formula "a callous, budget-driven effort."

Joined by urban mayors and child advocates, the attorneys filed more than 100 pages of legal briefs arguing that the state has no evi dence that its $7.8 billion school funding plan will address the long- standing social and economic barriers that the court says urban schoolchildren face.

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