Not exact matches
Beginning in the late 1960s, and accelerating unabated through to the
present,
plaintiffs have filed more than 125 court cases questioning the constitutionality of
school district and
school spending levels.
Courting Failure includes nine chapters that
present «data points» on
school finance lawsuits — demonstrating that court rulings show little relationship to the provisions of state constitutions, that
plaintiffs are unable to link resource shortfalls to achievement differences, that enormous infusions of resources don't achieve their purpose, and so on.
The class action was filed earlier this month in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, in Washington, on behalf of some 100,000 individuals who attended such
schools from 1890 until the
present day, said Jeffrey M. Herman, the lead lawyer for the
plaintiffs.
In oral arguments
presented in the Appellate Division, 2nd Department of the New York State Supreme Court, the
plaintiffs argued that the existing
school system is failing their children, and that the outsized job protections for chronically ineffective teachers across New York must be struck down.
Contrary to the argument
presented by the CCJEF
plaintiffs, the judge found that Connecticut already, «spends more than the bare minimum on
schools» (Moukawsher, 2016, p. 23).
Judge Dietz has ten days to respond to the filing
presented by the Charter
School Plaintiffs.