Litigants on both sides
of school finance cases submit their preferred rankings as evidence, and judges sometimes cite them in their decisions.
Dianne Payne, an adoptive mother and a PTA president from Queens, asked the judge overseeing the state's 13 - year -
old school finance case for $ 26,000 to remove two of her five children from what she considers inadequate public high schools and place them in private schools, where she contends schooling is better.
The corporation was created in 2002 as a public agency to oversee projects mandated as part of the state's Abbott v.
Burke school finance case.
Massachusetts 2020 and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, along with education, civil rights and child advocacy leaders, submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in support of the plaintiffs in the Hancock vs.
Driscoll school financing case.
Regardless of the Supreme Court of Texas» decision on the legal merits of the most
recent school finance case, the facts have not changed and the needs of the state's growing diverse student population have not been met (Texas Taxpayer, 2014 & 2016).
There is currently an
ongoing school finance case, Texas Taxpayers and Student Fairness Coalition et al. vs. Williams, that questions the adequacy of the funding system in Texas.
Updated links, video, audio: The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Sept. 1, 2015 in the
largest school finance case in the state's...
Dan: One of the first amicus briefs I ever filed was what we called the School to Prison Pipeline briefing, in the
Hancock school finance case here in Massachusetts.
Steve Morrison's voice shook with the weight of South Carolina's history as he closed his arguments against the state last month in the key trial of an 11 - year -
old school finance case.
Coming from a Civil Rights background with experience
litigating school finance cases, Bernal did the simple math that if schools were underfunded — which they are — then more funding would fix their problems.
That Herculean task fell to Mr. Bellman after the Ohio Supreme Court in November ordered mediation as a way to end the state's long -
running school finance case.
In
the school finance cases in California three decades ago, the Court of Appeal reasoned that negative consequences «inevitably flowed» onto low - income residents as a result of the law alone, since, they argued, property - tax funded education inevitably disadvantaged low - income people.
However, as
the school finance cases demonstrate, states are perfectly willing to raise the principle of local control when it suits their interests.
Unlike
the school finance cases, courts need not design a whole new administrative infrastructure to evaluate and dismiss teachers.
While demonstrating the states» legal responsibility for public education,
the school finance cases also illustrate the resonance of the local control principle.
In 2003, Dr. Costrell's extensive expert testimony in Massachusetts»
school finance case (Hancock v. Driscoll) proved critical to the successful defense of that state's education reform program.
The source of this claim is a series of recent consultant reports commissioned by teacher unions, school board associations, legislative bodies, and others, often for use in
school finance cases.
Consider, for example, data from
the school finance case currently being litigated in Massachusetts.
What is unusual — and may be unprecedented — is for districts to sue the members of their state's supreme court in
a school finance case.
In an article for Education Next, Charles Ogletree and Kimberley Robinson argue that
these school finance cases should not be only a state issue.
Liu was one of three justices who dissented in
the school finance case.
Their funding schemes in
the school finance case were thwarted by the Court.
Gordon spoke to the results of
the school finance case, revocation litigation, and the Attorney General's opinion on charter property.
Most of
those school finance cases have focused on money for operations, but several have sought more equitable funding for facility improvements as well.
September 1, 2015: The Texas Supreme Court heard arguments from the Texas Charter Schools Association and the other appellants in
the school finance case.
Supporters of increased funding for public schools are concerned about the impact this effort may have on
a school finance case that is currently before the supreme court.