Sentences with phrase «school finance system unconstitutional»

In his ruling, Judge John Dietz found the Texas school finance system unconstitutional.

The high court found Wyoming's school finance system unconstitutional last year and ordered the legislature to come up with a new one.

[n3] In December, 1971, [n4] the panel rendered its judgment in a per curiam opinion holding the Texas school finance system unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The New Jersey Supreme Court last week declared the state's school finance system unconstitutional, striking down a law that sought to break ground nationally by linking funding levels to statewide curriculum standards.

In 1995, the Wyoming Supreme Court declared the school finance system unconstitutional and ordered it overhauled.

Not exact matches

In September 2004, Texas lost a battle in the West Orange - Cove Consolidated ISD v. Nelson case: A district court judge ruled that the state's school finance system was unconstitutional.

The state is appealing the Kansas Supreme Court's ruling in Montoy v. State that its school finance system is unconstitutional.

In 1993, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in Alabama Coalition for Equity v. Hunt that the state's school finance system was unconstitutional.

A state district court judge in Wyoming has said the state's school finance system, which was found unconstitutional in 1995, can be used one more year.

Similarly, in South Carolina, it was in 2005, not 1999, that the courts declared the state's system of school finance unconstitutional.

First, some of the court decisions on which they rely are not decisions holding the state's school - financing system unconstitutional, but are preliminary decisions in cases not actually decided on their merits until years later.

A court's ruling that an existing school - finance system is unconstitutional is only the first step toward funding reform.

Courts have in turn deemed school - finance systems unconstitutional in 28 states.

Our basic strategy was to compare changes in funding levels in districts where the state's school - finance system has been ruled unconstitutional to funding changes in comparable districts in states where an SFJ has not been issued.

We did this by comparing changes in funding in school districts where the state's school - finance system has been ruled unconstitutional in a court challenge to funding changes in comparable districts in states where no SFJ has been issued.

The Idaho Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the state's school finance system was unconstitutional.

Nearly a year after declaring Montana's system of paying for its public schools unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court early this month relinquished its jurisdiction over the school - finance case.

Although courts in Ohio have repeatedly declared that the state's system of school finance, which relies heavily on property taxes, is unconstitutional, they ended their involvement in the case in 2003.

Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.

A New Jersey judge last week declared the legislature's most recent revision of the state school - finance system unconstitutional because it fails to close the funding gap between poorer and wealthier districts.

The candidate is Ray Corns, who as a circuit - court judge in 1988 ruled that the state's system of school finance was unconstitutional because it allowed vast differences between...

The case was under appeal after Judge John Dietz's lower court ruling that the Texas school finance system is unconstitutional because it «fails to provide an adequate, suitable education.»

Following the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court reversal of the Rodríguez decision that found the Texas system of school finance unconstitutional, he resigned from the Edgewood ISD to establish IDRA to advocate school finance reform and improved educational opportunities for all children.

The case, called Lobato v. Colorado, challenges the current school finance system as unconstitutional because it does not provide adequate funding for public schools.

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.

The Court said that «public school students are entitled to equal enjoyment of the right to education, and a system of school financing that relied on local property tax revenues without regard to disparities in town wealth and that lacked significant equalizing state support was unconstitutional.

Often reacting to mandates from courts that found local finance systems unconstitutional, states have moved away from funding based primarily on property taxes and have implemented state aid formulas that direct more money to low - income and low - tax - base school districts.