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Nonetheless, the adequacy lawsuit has emerged as a prominent, if largely unnoticed, reform strategy, using the courts to force even more education spending on state and local governments.
How many total dollars these suits have contributed to the rapid increase in education spending is unknown, but we do know that, since 1989, adequacy lawsuits have been launched in more than 30 states, and a vast majority of them have resulted in a court award to plaintiffs mandating more money for schools.
«It is the most expensive compensatory program ever attempted anywhere in education,» he wrote, voicing complaints that sound similar to those made by critics of «adequacy» lawsuits today, «yet no significant improvement can be detected in the learning of these «disadvantaged» children.
Even though constitutional requirements are typically vaguely defined, if at all, plaintiffs were very successful in these adequacy lawsuits for a decade and a half, and a number of states were ordered to substantially increase their appropriations for K - 12 education.
The case became one of the nation's most successful educational - adequacy lawsuits when New York's highest court, the Court of appeals, ruled that the state constitution's spare education clause guaranteed a «sound basic education» to every child.
«Lawmakers Brace for Lawsuit Over School Funding,» Colorado News Agency (12/11/09) «Keeping the Call in the Right Venue», The Denver Post (10/27/09) «Lawsuit Over State's School Funding as Inadequate Far - Reaching», The Denver Post (10/25/09) «Court Allows Schools Trial», The Denver Post (10/20/09) «Court Rules Parents Can Sue Colorado for Low School Funding, The Durango Herald (10/20/09) «Ruling Lets School Funding Case Go to Trial», The Denver Daily News (10/20/09) «High Court Revives Lobato «Adequacy» Suit», Education News Colorado (10/19/09)
Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.
The historic CCJEF v. Rell case — a once - in - a-generation education adequacy and equity lawsuit challenging the state constitutionality of CT's PK - 12 education finance system — ended on August 10, 2016.
In 2010, the Connecticut Supreme Court concluded in a 4 - 3 decision in response to the coalition's lawsuit that the Constitution implied a qualitative standard of a minimally adequate education, and that the state is responsible for ensuring that level of adequacy is met.
As Rick Hanushek has carefully demonstrated in the context of education spending adequacy lawsuits, the «professional judgment» or «expert panel» method is completely unreliable: He writes: