Sentences with phrase «for sound basic education»

If a fundamental tenet among state leaders is to personalize learning for every child or otherwise guarantee the opportunity for a sound basic education for every child, then funding formulas can be developed to meet these goals.

What this report shows is that there is currently a systemic failure to ensure that the moral purpose of public education as defined by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Vincent v. Voight is being fulfilled: «An equal opportunity for a sound basic education is one that will equip students for their roles as citizens and enable them to succeed economically and personally.»

Disequalizing factors in our school finance system continue to increase, and it is difficult to understand how children can receive an equal opportunity for a sound basic education when districts are becoming less uniform.

Looking at the challenges effective teachers and leaders face every day, what would it really take to help them ensure every student in NC has the opportunities guaranteed to them in our state constitution of equal opportunity for a sound basic education?

The state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, apparently recognized this even as it approved DeGrasse's ruling, stating, «Decisions about spending priorities are indeed the Legislature's province, but we have a duty to determine whether the State is providing students with the opportunity for a sound basic education.

Despite its name, the lead plaintiff in the 1993 complaint, CFE, did not argue that the state's financing arrangements were inequitable, but that the funds given to New York City were not «adequate» for a sound basic education.

The legislature increased formula aid to education by $ 1.1 billion which represents a 6.7 % increase overall formula aid increase including a $ 375 million increase for Sound Basic Education aid to be allocated in the same manner as in 2005 - 06.

Full funding for a sound basic education is a CFE mandate, not a bargaining chip.»

Not exact matches

Governor Cuomo has consistently failed in his obligation to provide the resources necessary for all New York City students to receive the «sound basic education» that is guaranteed by New York State's constitution.

«This is the year the state should significantly increase the Foundation Formula, eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment and make good on its commitment that, no matter where students live or go to school, they have the opportunity for the sound, basic education the New York Constitution requires.»

«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.»

The lawsuits argue that teachers» due - process rights and layoff by seniority contravene the state's constitutional guarantee of a «sound, basic» education for all students.

The CFE lawsuit alleged that the state's funding formula was not providing an opportunity for a «sound basic education» under the state's constitution to students in the New York City.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

In a series of cases called the Campaign for Fiscal Equality, which lasted from 1995 to 2006, the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, found that the state was not providing enough money for New York City, leaving students without access to a «sound basic education.»

In a partial victory for the Cuomo administration, the Court of Appeals dismissed the claims of an educational group that New York was failing to provide a «sound basic education» to school kids across the state.

That case, which NY State fought for a decade resolved that young people in NY have a right under our Constitution to a «sound basic education.»

After the first two years of the phase - in of this agreement, however, the state first froze and then dramatically slashed aid for education, the suit notes, and in so doing, failed to fulfill its constitutional requirement to provide every student with a sound, basic education.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

He affirmed that one of the ways through which the youth can be encouraged towards becoming ambassadors of the state was through the provision of sound education, and as such, he promised that his government would help the state in this area by ensuring that the basic needs for achieving quality education in Yobe state would be provided.

Jackson, who successfully sued state lawmakers in 2006 for failing to provide the constitutionally required «sound, basic education» for New York City students, called Cuomo's cuts «a step backward» and «devastating for the children of New York state.»

He says that could be grounds for a legal constitutional challenge to the tax cap law, because New York's constitution requires that all children in the state receive a «sound, basic» education.

As a result of a 2006 lawsuit known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled the state education department was not adequately funding its schools, thus violating students» constitutional right to a sound, basic education.

AQE formed in 2001 with a singular purpose: to push the state to meet its obligation of funding a «sound basic education» for children in public schools, as per the New York State constitution.

Jacobowitz, who wrote the resolution, said «this is not a matter of politics or even a policy debate; rather, this is a matter of basic government function, an informed decision - making process for our communities, and the right of our children to a sound basic education.»

The state Legislature adopted it one year after a 2006 ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity that ordered New York to provide enough funding to schools to ensure a «sound, basic education» for all public school children.

NYSUT, meanwhile, again urged the state to fully fund schools under the terms of a 2007 settlement in the high - profile Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which required the state to fix its school funding formula and fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide a «sound, basic education» to all children.

But in its final post-trial submission filed this year, New York argued the formula does not represent the funding needed to give all students, including those in the small - city districts, the opportunity for a «sound basic education» under the New York Constitution, according to the alliance.

«The court concludes that the plaintiffs have failed to establish their claim that the state has not met its constitutional obligation to provide the students in the eight small city school districts with the opportunity for a sound, basic education,» O'Connor wrote in her ruling.

«As chair of the Assembly education committee, I know our majority and Speaker Carl E. Heastie have consistently fought for more state funding so that all of our students can finally receive the sound, basic education they desperately deserve.»

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

The organization claims that what charter schools receive, typically 60 to 75 percent of what traditional public schools receive per pupil and no funding for facilities, deprives the children of their right to a «sound basic education» under the state constitution.

Just because, despite all our rhetoric to the contrary, as a country we do not set enough store by insisting that a sound basic education be available for all students, regardless of race or economic circumstance.

As the recent decision in Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York shows, even state constitutional guarantees of «a sound basic education» may mean no more than a «minimally adequate» education that enables a person only to hold some job, and to not «be a charge on the public fisc.»

But were 16 adequate for a «sound basic education» or were 10 enough?

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.

«Wisconsin students have a fundamental right to an equal opportunity to a sound basic education that will equip students for their roles as citizens and enable them to succeed economically and personally.»

The Court also holds that «Wisconsin students have a fundamental right to an equal opportunity to a sound basic education... that will equip students for their roles as citizens and enable them to succeed economically and personally.»

It's a commitment that allows the state to more equitably distribute funds for public schools as well, filling in gaps where local property taxes would otherwise generate insufficient funds to guarantee a sound basic education for every child.

It was timely, then, when in 2014 Campbell Brown and the Partnership for Educational Justice brought a suit called Wright v. New York that «was inspired by a California court decision a few months earlier, when a judge ruled the state's tenure protections denied California's students their constitutional right to a sound and basic education.»

Hobgood said the program pays for students to attend schools that are not obliged to meet state curriculum requirements, violating the state constitution's guarantee for students to have an opportunity to a sound, basic education.

The entity has a credible and specific plan for dramatically improving student achievement in a low - performing school and provides evidence that the entity, or a contractual affiliate of such an entity, is either currently operating a school or schools in this State that provide students a sound, basic education or demonstrating consistent and substantial growth toward providing students a sound, basic education in the prior three school years.

The state got serious about providing extra funding to low - wealth districts and disadvantaged students back in 1997, when the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in the case Leandro v. State that all students have the right to «an opportunity for a sound, basic education.»

It goes on to say «In these cities, a «sound basic education» is in short supply, and public charter schools offer a glimmer of hope for many families, but the ability of these charter schools to meet this profound need is stymied by an unconstitutional funding scheme.»

In that seminal case, a judge found North Carolina had failed to provide a «sound, basic» education for all students, regardless of the relative wealth in their local school districts.

«We know our state is not meeting the demands of a sound, basic education for all of our kids,» Cooper added.