Attorneys from the Education Law Center and the Public Interest Law Center cited gross inequities in school funding among the state's school districts, to argue that the state's current school funding system violates the state Constitution's requirement that the state legislature «support and maintain» a «thorough and
efficient system of public education.»
Not exact matches
The Illinois Constitution, with one
of the most demanding
education clauses, says that the state must «provide for an
efficient system of high quality
public educational institutions and services.»
(A representative clause, borrowed from the Arkansas Constitution, reads, «Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards
of liberty and the bulwark
of a free and good government, the State shall ever maintain a general, suitable and
efficient system of free
public schools and shall adopt all suitable means to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities
of education.»)
Help us advocate for a safe,
efficient, high quality
system of public education that works for the success
of every Florida child.
FundEducationNow.org believes success is possible only through a well - planned and sustained collaboration that includes the broadest spectrum
of advocates.In addition, FundEducationNow.org is currently a plaintiff suing the Florida Legislature for failing to perform its «paramount duty» to provide a free, high quality, safe,
efficient and uniform
system of public education as required by Article IX, section 1
of the Florida Constitution.
Fund
Education Now grades legislators on their efforts to provide and fund «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality education» as outlined in Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Cons
Education Now grades legislators on their efforts to provide and fund «a uniform,
efficient, safe, secure, and high quality
system of free
public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality
education» as outlined in Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Cons
education» as outlined in Article IX, section 1
of the Florida Constitution.
So she teamed up with other
education advocates to sue the state, arguing that Florida is violating its Constitutional obligation to provide «a uniform,
efficient, safe, secure, and high quality
system of free
public schools.»
The Florida
public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new
education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform,
efficient, safe, secure, and high quality
system of free
public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed]
public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the
education of Florida's children.»