Sentences with phrase «provided sound basic education»

As you would expect, the suit demands that New York State's tenure, teacher dismissal, and reverse - seniority layoff rules be struck down because they violate the Empire State constitution's provision that all kids are provided sound basic education.

After the decision, Gov. George Pataki's administration, though a special commission, concluded that $ 1.9 billion in additional combined state, local and federal revenues, to be phased in over a five - year period, was a valid determination of the cost of providing a sound basic education in New York City.

In doing so, State education spending will remain under the school aid cap while providing all districts with sufficient funds to provide a sound basic education.6

BRUCE KARAM: We want to be able to provide the sound basic education, which is guaranteed under the state constitution...

That didn't seem to bother Justice DeGrasse, who simply created his own panel to «ascertain the actual cost of providing a sound basic education in New York City.»

«It appears to this court that the General Assembly is seeking to push at - risk students from low income families into non-public schools in order to avoid the cost of providing them a sound basic education in public school as mandated by the Leandro decision,» he said.

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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.

«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 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.

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.»

A lawsuit filed in Buffalo Tuesday says the current formula is unconstitutional and that the state is falling short of its obligation to provide every student 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.»

Courts have established that the state has a constitutional responsibility to ensure that each district has enough money to provide a «sound, basic education.»

It is the result of an order from the New York State Court of appeals to provide «a sound basic education to all students,»» Mr. de Blasio said.

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.

«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.

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.

Since states have the constitutional responsibility to provide a sound education, don't you think they should be clear about what they expect students to know and be able to do in the basic subjects?

«Success» in implementing standards - based reforms under this model is defined not in terms of test scores in a limited number of subject areas, but broadly, in terms of providing all students a sound basic education on a sustained basis.

Still, it took two years before the state court of appeals ruled that CFE's complaints met the adequacy standard (questioning that the state provided a «sound basic education») and six more years to bring the case to trial.

Instead they alleged that they were not given enough to provide a «sound basic education,» which the New York courts decided was a state constitutional right in CFE.

The NC Supreme Court sidestepped an opportunity to hold the state accountable in providing a sound and basic education to all its children when it determined that the state was sufficiently fulfilling its responsibility in another Leandro ruling last month.

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's appeal made it to the state Supreme Court, where the conservative majority voted 4 - 3 to overturn Hobgood's ruling and uphold the voucher program, saying in effect that publicly funded private schools have no obligation to provide students with a sound basic education.

, which defined the state's constitutional obligation to provide every North Carolina child with an «opportunity to obtain a sound basic education.»

Turning around these schools would not fully address the constitution's educational opportunity mandate (some students in higher - performing schools are also not being provided the opportunity to receive a sound basic education), but it would be a great start.

In 2005, the Public School Forum published the results of its eleventh biennial study group, offering detailed strategies to provide every child in the state with an equal opportunity to obtain a sound basic education, as guaranteed under the North Carolina Constitution.1 Public School Forum (2005).

In his ruling today Hobgood recognized the state's obligation to provide a «sound basic education» to the children attending public schools in North Carolina as mandated by the Supreme Court in its Leandro decision.

Ten years ago, Study Group XI offered a response to the state supreme court's seminal ruling in Leandro v. State, which defined the state's constitutional obligation to provide every North Carolina child with an «opportunity to obtain a sound basic education.»

As you review this publication, we urge you to pause often and ask yourself, «What would it take to provide a child like Antonio with the opportunity to receive a sound basic education?»

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.»

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.