From the Associated Press

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled the state must make $11.5 million in back payments to Father Flanagan's Boys Town and other social service agencies that have educated state wards, the Associated Press reports.

The high court ruled Nebraska also must pay for current general educational services for the wards, children whose care is the responsibility the state, estimated at $2 million a year for Boys Town, AP reports.

The ruling came after Boys Town, the nonprofit founded in 1917 and made famous by the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, challenged Nebraska's practice of paying expenses only for wards needing special-education services.

Boys Town educates about 100 state wards a year.