Quicker resolution of these cases would mean
decreased use of court time and resources, and thus could be an extremely valuable option for child alienation cases.
The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most
of the cases to the relevant years in which the
court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial
decreases in later years; and their
use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the
court orders covered only a subset
of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.
Just imagine how judges and
court staff can now better
use that time to settle time sensitive and / or complex cases, all
of this while increasing rather than
decreasing access to justice.