Attorneys for the state urged a federal judge to reject the Little Rock School District's request to intervene in a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' Educational Freedom Account program.

In a filing submitted Friday in the Eastern District of Arkansas, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin's office accused the school district of falling "short on every requirement to intervene as a party in this case." Griffin's office claims, among other things, the district lacks standing to intervene and that, even if it had standing, sovereign immunity would block its claims regardless.

The school district motioned to intervene in an Oct. 24 filing that said the case's outcome "will significantly impact" its students and educators. However, the attorney general's office criticized the motion as a "misgui

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