Sentences with phrase «equity lawsuit»

Mike Rebell is the man responsible for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity Lawsuit in which courts found the state underfunded New York City public schools.

But when it was discovered that Klein had been involved in a school equity lawsuit in Missouri in the 1980s, there was more embarrassment for CFE.

Aside from that money, Mr. de Blasio called for the state to boost the city's share of education funds as called for by Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit settlement.

(Left) UFT President Michael Mulgrew discusses the state's failure to meet its obligation on the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit with Albany lawmakers.

Miner says the leaders of the two cities believe the state has a moral and legal responsibility, to come through with just over $ 5.8 billion for municipalities across the state which they say is mandated from the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuits several years ago.

Advocates point to the 2003 Campaign For Fiscal Equity Lawsuit where an appellate court judge found the State allows public schools to go «chronically underfunded.»

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.

At the top of the list was increasing state funding for schools — particularly for the $ 2 billion in state aid owed to New York City schools as a result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit settlement — and legislation requiring charter schools to enroll and keep their fair share of English language learners, students with disabilities and homeless students.

Look at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, and the court settlement there and the fact that to this day we still are owed billions and billions of dollars in education funding.

The effort, the lawmakers said at a news conference, is aimed at satisfying the terms of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit — a claim for additional state aid to schools that is staunchly disputed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.

The state came up with the «foundation aid» formula in 2007 to comply with a 2006 court ruling aimed at helping New York's poorer public schools following a Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

«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.»

On the contrary, Lee noted that her school is owed money from the state because of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, which ruled 10 years ago that Albany has to pony up more money for city schools — which it has yet to do.

First, advocates who seek additional aid for education frequently invoke the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and the Legislature's adoption of «Foundation Aid» in 2007, insinuating that the CFE lawsuit found that schools statewide were underfunded and that the court ordered additional funding statewide.

It's a right enshrined in our state constitution and confirmed by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit,» said Brannan.

«We're urging the governor and legislature to meet their constitutional obligations to enforce the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuits, which says schools across the state should have much more funding than they have had for decades now,» said Miner.

The report takes particular issue with the Cuomo administration's claims when it comes to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and Foundation Aid funding.

That agenda fails to pay the city the $ 2.5 billion in state aid that schools are owed from the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, despite a $ 5 billion state budget surplus.

The Republican Senate majority said the Foundation Aid formula fulfilled «the mandate of the Court of Appeals decision in CFE vs. The State of New York,» and the Democratic Assembly leadership said it «addresses the court - ordered requirements of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.»

While the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was supposed to give the city its fair share of education aid, Walcott said city revenue would cover 61 percent of non-federal education spending in next year's budget.

Others seemed pleasantly surprised that Black was talking about the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and reducing state cuts to city education aid.

«We're still suffering,» and «What about the Fiscal Equity lawsuit?»

they chanted, demanding the state honor a settlement in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that requires it to provide more aid to under - funded school districts.

An Albany County state supreme court justice has ruled against plaintiffs from eight «small city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state aid.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña slammed Cuomo for the governor's failure to pay the city the $ 2.5 billion in state aid that city schools are owed from the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

If elected, De La Rosa has vowed to allocate funds for NYCHA facilities and secure the $ 2 billion in funds the state still owes to New York City public schools through the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew urged state lawmakers in Albany to deliver the long - delayed $ 2 billion owed to New York City public schools as a result of the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

He pointed to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and the «billions and billions of dollars» in education funding the city has been shorted on by the state.

District officials have said that the state was ordered, as a result of the fiscal equity lawsuit, to pay Syracuse schools $ 56 million per year for seven years, a total of $ 392 million.

A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and provide the resources coming to the city schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol in Albany in an act of civil disobedience.

The same criticisms have been appropriately leveled at plenty of earlier efforts, including site - based management, block scheduling, equity lawsuits, busing, de-tracking, and much else.

Despite tremendous political pressure, New York governor George Pataki defended the case and ultimately prevailed at the appeals - court level (full disclosure: my firm served as co-counsel with the New York attorney general's office in the trial of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit).

Education - establishment groups will file a slew of new funding - equity lawsuits — and charter school groups will join them.

Will a state supreme court, as part of its remedy in a fiscal equity lawsuit, decree that all children be given a choice of any school, public or private, with the state paying the cost?

Because New York State law is different, the group's legal argument here will probably rest on students» right to a «sound basic education» — a standard established in 2001 by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

Topics include: need - based funding formulas, equity lawsuits, students» access to the most effective teachers, local budget battles, fraudulent and wasteful spending, and the persistence of «savage inequalities» among schools and districts.

Filed and actively pursue an equity lawsuit constructed to ensure a fair and appropriate amount of state funding and equal opportunities for a thorough and efficient education for students in small and rural school districts

In particular, we continue to pursue equitable and fair resolution to the equity lawsuit, which we filed in 1991.