«The court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was founded on the principle that all schools
need adequate funding levels in order to provide every student a «sound basic education.»
«With a $ 14 billion M.T.A. capital budget hole, there's a lot of finger - pointing
over adequate funding levels,» said Tri-State Transportation Campaign executive director Veronica Vanterpool.
The NEU believes the Government is failing in its duty to provide proper support for pupils with high needs and it will continue to argue
for adequate funding levels.
The Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham said the report shows that providing a quality educations must take into account much more than
adequate funding levels.
The reality is that the continued pressure of the budget caps exacerbates the pressure on Congress to cut, cut, cut and completely bypasses any realistic conversation about what the appropriate and
adequate funding levels are and should be.
In our poorest districts, a child not yet in kindergarten would be out of college before her school district reached
an adequate funding level.