Sentences with phrase «lawsuits over school funding»
Nearly every state has faced lawsuits over school funding.
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The union's advocates are expected to pressure lawmakers for an increase of at least $ 1.5 billion — a figure that education advocates have argued satisfies a lawsuit over school funding.
«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)
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«This is just another excuse from Gov. Andrew Cuomo for why it is he absolutely refusing to fairly and adequately fund high need schools in the state,» said Billy Easton, the executive director of the AQE, a group that has gotten under Cuomo's skin over the years by pushing him to hike school aid under the terms of a lawsuit over funding.
Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms of a lawsuit over equitable funding for school districts.
«New full day pre-K is a major operating expense,» said Michael Rebell, an attorney who argued the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case and is gearing up for another lawsuit over the state's school - funding formula.
The Florida Supreme Court will take up a long running lawsuit over public school funding.
New Hampshire's attorney general will argue that public education is a state and local responsibility but that the state is not obligated to ensure equal funding among school districts, an opinion some local school - board members are preparing to support in the lawsuit over the legality of the state's school - funding method.
What one education advocate describes as a «perfect storm» over school finance is brewing in Georgia, as a top lawmaker pushes to replace local property taxes for education with a statewide sales tax, even as the state gears up to fight a lawsuit from school districts over the current funding formula.
The original set of state standards and state mandated standardized tests were imposed by the Whitman Administration as part of a lawsuit, known as Abbott versus Burke, over New Jersey's school funding formula.
The NAACP is involved in a lawsuit in Tallahassee, Florida where over 92,000 kids, many of them children of color and from low - income families, are at risk to lose their privately funded scholarships to attend the private schools of their choice.
We at IDRA applaud the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund for filing its lawsuit this week against the state of Texas over school funding on behalf of four property - poor school districts and three parents.
The lawsuit — which was filed in 2011 and became the longest legal battle over school finance in state history — was brought against the state after the Legislature cut $ 5.4 billion in public education funding from the state budget while schools were already struggling to implement new academic standards.
«Study: Colorado Gets F in School Funding,» Education News Colorado (10/12/10) «MCSD Joins Lawsuit Over State Education Funding,» Craig Daily Press (6/11/10) «AG Answers Lobato Suit,» Education News Colorado (4/30/10)
At the same time, a lawsuit over inadequate school funding is making its way through the courts, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called for change.
Educators say the state was slow to roll out rules for the system, which gives schools their first significant authority over spending since the late 1970s, when the state took over education funding after a taxpayer revolt and lawsuits challenging funding disparities.
«District Approves Spending $ 17,856 to Sue State for More Money,» Greeley Gazette (4/24/10) «Jeffco, Colorado Springs School Districts Join Lawsuit Over State Funding,» The Denver Post (3/2/10) «Lawsuit: Education Clause Trumps TABOR,» Education News Colorado (3/1/10) «Suing for School Funding,» News First 5 (3/1/10) «District 11 Decides to Sue the State of Colorado,» News Channel 13 (3/1/10) «Demandan a Colorado por Descuidar Educacion Bilingue de Alumnos Mas Pobres,» El Sentinel (2/26/10) «D11 Weighs $ 30K Commitment to Lawsuit,» News First 5 (2/23/10)
Although school funding adequacy has been an issue in many states and lawsuits over the question have been closely - watched nationally — Kansas would seem to be a special case focused on Brownback's unconventional efforts to jump start the state economy by deeply slashing taxes.
The important thing to remember is this formula is what the legislature decided on how it would fund schools.This was created to avoid a lawsuit over underfunding public schools.
Gov. Jerry Brown has argued that a major shift in education funding through the new Local Control Funding Formula, which offers school districts more control over spending and less regulation at the district level, will help remedy education inequities outlined in the lfunding through the new Local Control Funding Formula, which offers school districts more control over spending and less regulation at the district level, will help remedy education inequities outlined in the lFunding Formula, which offers school districts more control over spending and less regulation at the district level, will help remedy education inequities outlined in the lawsuit.
The current method, under which local school districts are charged with turning over state funds to charters, has prompted lawsuits and acrimony over the last decade.
We see his influence in every protest against police violence, every picket that demands funds for public schools over cop academies, every lawsuit opposing Chicago's racist gang database.
The Florida Supreme Court will take up a long running lawsuit over public school funding.
That's according to Advocacy Manager with the Northeast Charter Schools Network, Duncan Kirkwood, whose group supports a lawsuit filed against the state over the way New York funds charter sSchools Network, Duncan Kirkwood, whose group supports a lawsuit filed against the state over the way New York funds charter schoolsschools.