Sentences with phrase «school finance litigation»
How, then, can states pursue and implement a reform agenda if they are also involved in school finance litigation?
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But that leaves the problem that has afflicted school finance litigation for decades: If money is not the measure of resources and opportunity, then what is?
But that leaves the problem that has afflicted school finance litigation for decades: if money is not the measure of resources and opportunity, then what is?
There is no question that, as Michael Heise argues, the accountability and standards movement is threatened by school finance litigation («Educational Jujitsu,» Feature, Fall 2002).
Video: Eric Hanushek talks with Education Next about the recent Supreme Court decision on school spending in Arizona, and considers the ruling's impact on state school finance litigation.
Grounded in those state constitutional provisions, many state supreme courts have, typically as part of a decision having to do with school finance litigation, recognized an individual right to education.
Veronica Garcia ended the day with a legal update covering topics including waivers for HB 2610, comments for Districts of Innovation, the new Pre-K grant, cameras in special education classrooms (SB 507), and the pending school finance litigation.
Using the weighted average daily attendance, the gap is an average of $ 1000 less per student statewide, a number undisputed by any party in the most recent school finance litigation.
Those who follow the trends in school finance litigation divide the cases into three «waves.»
As school finance litigation evolved, those seeking equity began to widen their challenge to include educational facilities.
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 September.
Professor Benjamin Superfine of the University of Illinois at Chicago says school finance litigation has generally not succeeded in the federal courts after Rodriguez.
«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.
To appreciate the question, it is important to understand some related history involving school finance litigation...
Most likely, civil rights lawyers were too wearied by the bussing controversies to think of new strategies, and many had become skeptical of integration altogether — hence the popularity of school finance litigation.»
In too many places, public officials do not appreciate the stakes in school finance litigation or erroneously believe that such litigation will hasten reform efforts.
Eric Hanushek talks with Education Next about the recent Supreme Court decision on school spending in Arizona, and considers the ruling's impact on state school finance litigation.
The Kansas decision was refreshing, but it is not the end of school finance litigation.
As John Dinan shows in «School Finance Litigation: The Third Wave Recedes» in From Schoolhouse to Courthouse, state courts have grown increasingly weary, and wary, of being drawn into these political quagmires.
The focus on how much different school districts spend, in school finance litigation and legislative deliberation, he added, «appears misguided.»
The third wave of school finance litigation, instead of focusing on issues of equity, emphasize educational adequacy.
Now, said James E. Ryan, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former law professor who has written extensively on school financing litigation, there is more consensus.
With the school finance litigation having been resolved by a determination that the current system is minimally constitutional, we will be deploying our resources, energy and knowledge to persuade the next Legislature to do the right thing.