Sentences with phrase «school adequacy litigation»

Eric Hanushek, an economist at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the 2009 book on school litigation, «Schoolhouses, Courthouses and Statehouses,» said that the experience of states over the decades should serve as a warning to the California Supreme Court not to immerse itself in school adequacy litigation.

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But contemporary school - finance adequacy litigation goes far beyond seeking equity for the educationally disadvantaged.

To avoid this outcome, a new wave of school - finance litigation has instead endorsed an «adequacy» claim based on state constitutional clauses that exhort the legislature to provide for a «thorough and efficient» (or similar language) system of education.

Following two decades in which courts spurred significant reforms in our nation's neediest schools by interpreting the education clauses of their state constitutions to guarantee an «adequate» education for all students, the years 2005 to 2008 have seen a dramatic change in the judicial response to adequacy litigation.

In states like New Jersey, he said, adequacy litigation has lasted 40 years and resulted in much higher levels of school spending without marked improvement.

In all of the current litigation on school finance, we must ask ourselves, which is the most important consideration — adequacy, equity, or efficiency?

The third wave of school finance litigation, instead of focusing on issues of equity, emphasize educational adequacy.

Kansas Supreme Court Schedules Oral Arguments for School Finance Litigation Oral arguments to address the adequacy of the state's school finance system have been set for SeptSchool Finance Litigation Oral arguments to address the adequacy of the state's school finance system have been set for Septschool finance system have been set for September.

To date, two primary legal concepts have driven school finance litigation: equity and adequacy.

These two concepts — funding equity and funding adequacy — have featured in court challenges to state funding systems in different ways over time (See Overview of School Finance Litigation below).