Sentences with phrase «constitutional education clauses»

State constitutional education clauses are generally of three kinds.

School funding cases are complicated enough for state courts, even with state constitutional education clauses to interpret.

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To avoid this outcome, a new wave of school - finance litigation has instead endorsed an «adequacy» claim based on state constitutional clauses that exhort the legislature to provide for a «thorough and efficient» (or similar language) system of education.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, sued, citing a host of constitutional offenses, including violating the ban on support for private schools and churches (the state's Blaine Amendment), the ban on religious tests, the guarantee of religious freedom, the uniformity requirement in the education clause, the prohibition on support for private institutions, and, for good measure, the guarantee of local control.

Forty - three years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled in the landmark San Antonio v. Rodriguez school - funding case that education was not a constitutional right and that the disparate spending on education for students from low - income neighborhoods was not a violation of the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.