Sentences with phrase «judge school finance»

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«In addition to your product, you're also being judged on your team,» says Yael Hochberg, assistant professor of finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

AUSTIN — Attorneys for hundreds of school districts urged a state judge Tuesday to again overturn Texas» school finance system, arguing that the Legislature failed last year to fix problems that have plagued the system.

A state judge has struck down Kentucky's school - finance system, saying it «bears no rational relationship» to the state's duty under its constitution to provide «an efficient system of common schools.»

Wisconsin officials last week were planning to release $ 29 million in general funds to balance the state school - aid account after a judge declared that the state can not use lottery proceeds to finance education.

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In September 2004, Texas lost a battle in the West Orange - Cove Consolidated ISD v. Nelson case: A district court judge ruled that the state's school finance system was unconstitutional.

Dianne Payne, an adoptive mother and a PTA president from Queens, asked the judge overseeing the state's 13 - year - old school finance case for $ 26,000 to remove two of her five children from what she considers inadequate public high schools and place them in private schools, where she contends schooling is better.

In a recent school finance decision forced by plaintiff claims that public schools were inadequately and inequitably funded, a state of Washington judge, John Ehrlick, cut a Gordian knot that had for years tied up state legislatures from New York to Ohio and back to New Jersey.

In a terse, one - page order, the justices ruled 7 to 0 that any appeal in the school - finance case would had to have been filed by July 21, 1993, four months after Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Eugene W. Reese issued the controversial ruling.

The Los Angeles Unified School District board has reached a settlement in the district's school - financing case, but critics are trying to alter the agreement before a judge approvSchool District board has reached a settlement in the district's school - financing case, but critics are trying to alter the agreement before a judge approvschool - financing case, but critics are trying to alter the agreement before a judge approves it.

A state district court judge in Wyoming has said the state's school finance system, which was found unconstitutional in 1995, can be used one more year.

No one passed a peace pipe, but judges and lawmakers last month set aside their traditional enmity on school - finance issues for a few hours of frank talk here at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Garden State judges have ruled over school finance for 40 years, and the schools — especially the highest - poverty schools — have had a friend in court, being allowed to spend virtually whatever they want.

West Virginia's school - finance system goes on trial this month when a judge revisits a landmark 13 - year - old court mandate for injecting equity and quality into the state's schools.

The decision marked the second time a panel of Shawnee County district judges had been asked to rule on school finance.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Rebecca A. Albrecht ruled that a new finance system must be in place by June 30, 1998, or the state must stop distributing state aid to schools.

A Texas judge last week cut off state fund ing for the public schools and threatened to halt local spending as early as next Monday legislators do not produce an acceptable solution to the state's intractable education - finance dilemma.

Although they have been studying the education - finance situation since last October, when a state judge indicated that substantial changes were needed to balance the scales between wealthy and poor school districts, nothing prepared politicians in the state capital for last week's events.

Lawmakers, who were unable to agree on a finance - equity bill by the April 1 deadline set by the state supreme court, began a new round of discussions last week after District Judge Scott McCown froze about $ 2 billion in state school aid.

New Jersey's school - finance system should be discarded because it shortchanges property - poor urban districts and the disadvantaged students they serve, a state administrative - law judge has ruled.

A Texas judge last week allowed the flow of state funds to public schools to resume after Gov. Ann W. Richards signed an 11th - hour school - finance compromise passed by the legislature.

Arizona lawmakers now have a deadline to meet in reworking their states school finance system, after a state judge said a recent fix did not pass constitutional muster.

A New Jersey judge last week declared the legislature's most recent revision of the state school - finance system unconstitutional because it fails to close the funding gap between poorer and wealthier districts.

The candidate is Ray Corns, who as a circuit - court judge in 1988 ruled that the state's system of school finance was unconstitutional because it allowed vast differences between...

blog post last Friday, Attorney General George Jepsen, with the help and support of Governor Dannel Malloy, is asking a Connecticut Superior Court judge to dismiss the most important school finance lawsuit in nearly five decades.

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What's more, the criteria seek to judge states on how much support their reform plans have from the community, including local school districts that plan to participate in Race to the Top - financed initiatives.

Editor's Note: At press time, Travis County Judge John K. Dietz released his final judgement in the West Orange Cove vs. Neeley school finance court case reinforcing the critical need for fair funding of Texas public schools.

The case was under appeal after Judge John Dietz's lower court ruling that the Texas school finance system is unconstitutional because it «fails to provide an adequate, suitable education.»

With Judge John Dietz» school finance ruling in West Orange Cove vs. Neeley litigation in late September, the state opens a new chapter in Texas school funding debates that will reverberate for public education and our children.

In his ruling, Judge John Dietz found the Texas school finance system unconstitutional.

Tell it to the judge In the last 30 years, lawsuits challenging school finance systems in states have become commonplace.

Last month, Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in the case of Lobato vs. State of Colorado that Colorado's current public school finance system fails to meet state constitutional requirements to maintain a thorough and uniform public school system.

At the heart of Judge Moukawsher's historic ruling is the affirmation of what educators, parents, students, and community leaders have been saying for nearly four decades — Connecticut's school finance system is irrational, inequitable, and illogical.

After reviewing the body of research on school finance, Denver Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in December that Colorado's school funding system violates the state's constitutional promise of «uniform» educational opportunity for all children.

Earlier this year in Missouri, a U.S. District Judge found that the cozy relationship between Imagine Schools and SchoolHouse Finance LLC «clearly constituted self - dealing» and ordered Imagine Schools to pay nearly $ 1 million for inflated rental costs.

But Judge John W. Lungstrum of Federal District Court dismissed the suit, saying the local option budget cap, which limits the amount of money local school districts can raise, is not severable from the rest of the financing formula.

Again, had the judge examined the evidence, he would have also learned that the actual major factor in Massachusetts» improvement was the very measure he refused to order Connecticut to implement: school finance reform that dramatically increased the amount of school funding statewide.

Next Monday, on September 16, 2013, Attorney General George Jepsen, with the help and support of Governor Dannel Malloy, will go before a Connecticut Superior Court judge in what could be termed a despicable attempt to dismiss the most important school finance lawsuit in nearly five decades.

Public Finance Group lawyer Christie D. Jean served as a judge for the ABA's Regional Client Counseling Competition at Quinnipiac university School of Law on February 4, 2017.

For the elected judges on the state's highest civil court, the trick is to survive politically without thinking about politics — even on big political issues like school finance.

The judges might draw challengers with whatever they decide on school finance.

They took me to court for everything imaginable (crazy stuff like where I went to church, my daughter getting lice at school along with other classmates, me going to college, etc.), draining my meager finances and lying to judge after judge about me.