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.
Not exact matches
There's a
school of thought around Parliament Hill that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and
Finance Minister Bill Morneau have stumbled unwittingly into the battle now raging
over their proposal to seriously tighten up the
rules on small - business taxation.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
ruled late last month that due to extensive state control
over school finances, California
school districts are state agencies and deserve the same 11th Amendment immunity against federal lawsuits enjoyed by other branches of state government.
Though his
ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education
financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights
over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter
schools and community
schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.
After the California Supreme Court's 1971
ruling in Serrano v. Priest declared the state's
school finance system based on property tax wealth to be unconstitutional, Kirst helped then - Governor Jerry Brown to reduce funding disparities among California's
over 1,000
school districts.
For example, when a
finance professor at Spain's IESE Business
School examined how a 90 % stocks - 10 % bonds portfolio would have performed
over 86 rolling 30 - year periods between 1900 and 2014 following the 4 %
rule — i.e., withdrawing 4 % initially and then subsequently boosting withdrawals by the inflation rate — he found not only that the Buffett portfolio survived almost 98 % of the time, but that it had a significantly higher balance after 30 years than more traditional retirement portfolios with say, 50 % or 60 % invested in stocks.