Eleven Alabama public charter schools are asking a Montgomery circuit judge to block the state superintendent of education from finalizing annual countywide property tax distributions to other public schools until the court decides whether charter schools are entitled to a share of those funds. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 5, seeks to direct Alabama Superintendent Eric Mackey to include charter schools in his instructions to county revenue commissioners for how countywide property taxes should be distributed among public school districts. Attorneys for the schools argue Alabama law requires countywide property taxes to be distributed among all public schools — including public charter schools — but that Mackey has not included them in his previous annual instructions since becoming superintendent in 2018. Alabama’s charter school law was passed in 2015 and has been amended multiple times. The complaint claims Mackey has acted in an “arbitrary and capricious manner” by leaving charter schools off those lists.