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Next Monday, on September 16, 2013, Attorney General George Jepsen, with the help and support of Governor Dannel Malloy, will go before a Connecticut Superior Court judge in what could be termed a despicable attempt to dismiss the most important school finance lawsuit in nearly five decades.

blog post last Friday, Attorney General George Jepsen, with the help and support of Governor Dannel Malloy, is asking a Connecticut Superior Court judge to dismiss the most important school finance lawsuit in nearly five decades.

As noted in that blog, the case, CCJEF v. Rell, may well be the most important school finance lawsuit in Connecticut history.

NB: One of the authors of the study, Christopher Berry, talks with Education Next about how politics influences the way states react to school finance lawsuits in a video posted here.

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In response to lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school fundinIn response to lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school fundinin per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school fundinin 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school fundinin school funding.

The «special masters» will work with state officials and plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which resulted in a decision by the state's highest court that the state was inadequately financing the nation's largest school district.

New Jersey's second - largest categorical program is Parity Remedy Aid, a court - ordered program that targets additional funds to the so - called Abbott districts — the plaintiffs in the Abbott v. Burke school finance lawsuit — to create more equity between them and the state's wealthier and academically more successful districts.

Lindseth still contends that «adequacy» cases do not belong in court, but he considers Reed more justifiable than school - finance lawsuits.

A lunchtime meeting between a Kansas Supreme Court justice and the president of the state Senate in which the ongoing school finance lawsuit against the state was discussed has prompted a request for an investigation by a judicial panel.

You'll finish the book wondering why the topic hasn't received proper attention before; after all, lawsuits have been filed in at least 39 states to date, with victories for the plaintiffs in 25 All - star contributors include school finance guru Eric Hanushek, teacher salary myth - slayer Michael Podgursky, and constitutional scholar Kenneth Starr.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

While conceding that the Ohio constitution does not prohibit charter schools, he cited the court's previous rulings in DeRolph v. State, Ohio's adequacy lawsuit, holding that the constitution does prohibit «excessive reliance on locally raised funds to finance public schools.»

What one education advocate describes as a «perfect storm» over school finance is brewing in Georgia, as a top lawmaker pushes to replace local property taxes for education with a statewide sales tax, even as the state gears up to fight a lawsuit from school districts over the current funding formula.

Unions will, of course, object to the use of litigation for political purposes, but that has been the strategy of school - finance litigants for decades: use a lawsuit to pressure the legislature to cave in to your demands.

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It was created after the Texas Supreme Court ruled in the state's largest school finance lawsuit that the system was imperfect, but declined to mandate any fixes to the Texas Legislature.

The lawsuit — which was filed in 2011 and became the longest legal battle over school finance in state history — was brought against the state after the Legislature cut $ 5.4 billion in public education funding from the state budget while schools were already struggling to implement new academic standards.

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.

Tell it to the judge In the last 30 years, lawsuits challenging school finance systems in states have become commonplacIn the last 30 years, lawsuits challenging school finance systems in states have become commonplacin states have become commonplace.

The extent to which teachers experience dissimilar teaching conditions — and students experience very different learning conditions — has been made clear in the school finance lawsuits brought in many states, which describe in vivid terms the differences between rich and poor schools.

«There's a much weaker textual basis for the lawsuit than we see in state - level school finance litigation,» says Superfine, who also has a law degree.

May 7, 2016 • A lawsuit over the way public schools are financed in the state became so dramatic that it inspired some New York City high school students to write a play about it.