Sentences with phrase «school under the state constitution»

A Public School Academy is a state - supported public school under the State Constitution, operating under a charter contract issued by a public authorizing body.

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Furthermore, under the general welfare provision of the Constitution, the Federal Government offers financial assistance to states and local communities for a variety of educational purposes, ranging from subsidies for school lunch programs to salaries for teachers of agriculture and loans for school building construction.

A district court has granted a plaintiff's motion to remand a lawsuit back to a state court after the plaintiff, who was seeking a waiver of ineligibility from the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, withdrew his allegation that his rights under the United States Constitution were violated.

There are two reasons why the «broadcasting contribution» (Rundfunkbeitrag) was not created as a tax, both of them rather technical: Under the German constitution, the states are responsible for cultural affairs (which includes broadcasting, but also schools and universities).

Under the German constitution, the states are responsible for cultural affairs (which includes broadcasting, but also schools and universities).

Paladino planned to declare a fiscal state of emergency under the New York constitution, which he would use to freeze compensation of state, municipal and school employees [45][46] and cut the state budget by 10 to 20 percent.

Bennett Liebman, government lawyer - in - residence at Albany Law School and former deputy secretary for gaming and racing in the Cuomo administration, told The Alt that while the governor has the power under the state constitution to remove a district attorney from office through a quasi-judicial proceeding, it is «extraordinarily unlikely» that he will do so in this case.

A state judge has struck down Kentucky's school - finance system, saying it «bears no rational relationship» to the state's duty under its constitution to provide «an efficient system of common schools.»

While the United States Supreme Court has ruled that publicly funded school vouchers are constitutional under the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, most state constitutions contain a version of the so - called «Blaine Amendment,» which bars state aid to parochial schools.

The court said that charter schools are not «common» schools under the state's Constitution because they are controlled by a charter board rather than by local voters.

Kentucky must equalize spending among school districts, revise its tax system, and significantly boost its share of school revenues if it is to fulfill its obligation to children under the state constitution, an advisory committee appointed by a state trial judge has concluded.

The failure of the schools arises from their determination to cling to a position — a position clearly prohibited under the Constitution of the United States — that threatens the opportunities of children to receive the best possible education.»

The organization claims that what charter schools receive, typically 60 to 75 percent of what traditional public schools receive per pupil and no funding for facilities, deprives the children of their right to a «sound basic education» under the state constitution.

A state court averts the shutdown by ruling that the state is obligated under the California constitution to do whatever is necessary to keep the schools open.

The plaintiffs, a group of students and school districts, sued, arguing that several state statutes stood in the way of all students receiving the education guaranteed to them under the state constitution.

The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Public Interest Law Office of Rochester in September 1998, claims that the state has deprived the plaintiffs — all low - income black and Hispanic students — of their rights under the state constitution to a sound basic education by failing to alleviate concentrations of poverty in the 37,000 - student Rochester school district.

In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal desegregation orders from busing children for racial balance.

Under Florida's state constitution, students who have not been disciplined have an «absolute» right to attend their zoned regular school, said special education attorney Stephanie Langer of Coral Gables.

«We have always believed that the ultimate legality of our choice scholarship program would be decided by the federal courts under the United States Constitution,» Douglas County School Board President Kevin Larsen sad.

Petitioner Parents Involved in Community Schools objected to Seattle's most recent plan under the State and Federal Constitutions.

Denver District Court found in 2011 the program violated the Public School Finance Act of 1994 and other provisions of the state Constitution, but it was overturned by the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2013, saying the petitioners lacked standing to sue under the act and that the voucher program did not violate the state Constitution.

State governments are the entities ultimately responsible, under state constitutions, for ensuring kids have access to great schState governments are the entities ultimately responsible, under state constitutions, for ensuring kids have access to great schstate constitutions, for ensuring kids have access to great schools.

Under nearly every state constitution, the state government is given responsibility for public schooling.

In 2010, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that «under the education clause of the state constitution, public school children are entitled not just to a free and equal education but also to an adequate (quality) education, and the state must pay for it.»

Randy Dorn, the elected head of the state's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, believes that the state Constitution requires all public schools to be under his department's jurisdiction.

The bill he signed on June 4 of 1996 established charter schools in The Constitution State, thereby giving scores of families the option under law to choose a different kind of public school for their child.

The state supreme courts in Indiana and Wisconsin held that school - voucher laws were constitutional despite the presence of Blaine amendments in their state constitutions, but state supreme courts in Arizona and Colorado have invalidated school vouchers under their Blaine amendments.30 By contrast, no state supreme court in any of the 16 states with scholarship tax credit laws has ever found them to violate a Blaine amendment.

If we are guaranteed under our state constitution to have a bargaining unit to negotiate with the local school district for our salary schedule, and the guidelines for determining our retirement, doesn't it take a constitutional amendment not a state law to change that?

Answer: Under the California State Constitution, all public education must be of a non-sectarian nature and the teaching or funding of any religious or faith based «public» school is...

It is the case where the Connecticut Supreme Court made clear that under Connecticut's State Constitution every child has the right to attend a racially diverse school.

In a letter Thursday to Schwarzenegger, Steinberg noted that under the state constitution, the Legislature is prohibited from sending to the governor any bill that appropriates funds except for emergency bills that have been recommended by the governor.Officials from the governor's Department of Finance have said that the federal school jobs money could not be released without a budget, but it is unclear if the administration still holds that position.

[v] To that end, the IDEA expressly authorizes states to provide services at private, including religious, schools [vi], and the U.S. Supreme Court has held that doing so is perfectly permissible under the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

In 2007 in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the United States Supreme Court invalidated race - conscious plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, finding that explicitly pursuing racial balance in K - 12 schools by using race as a criterion for admission and placement was impermissible under the Constitution's equal protection Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the United States Supreme Court invalidated race - conscious plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, finding that explicitly pursuing racial balance in K - 12 schools by using race as a criterion for admission and placement was impermissible under the Constitution's equal protection schools by using race as a criterion for admission and placement was impermissible under the Constitution's equal protection clause.

The Kansas Supreme Court issued a ruling in March at the Kansas Judicial Center that the state school funding formula is inadequate under the Kansas Constitution.

Student - on - student bullying may also trigger a school district's responsibilities under state constitutions.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

While Arizona's tax - credit programs were fully vindicated by both the Arizona and U.S. Supreme courts, 10 the voucher programs were declared unconstitutional by the Arizona Supreme Court in Cain v. Horne under a provision of the state constitution that prohibits appropriations of public funds «in aid of» private and sectarian schools.11 In the wake of Cain v. Horne, the legislature passed Lexie's Law, 12 a corporately funded scholarship - tax - credit program to help fund private school scholarships for children with disabilities.

Under North Carolina's state constitution and school finance laws dating back more than eight decades, it is the state's responsibility to pay for instructional expenses (including personnel) while county governments pay for capital expenses (buildings and maintenance).

Under North Carolina's state constitution and school finance laws, it is the state's responsibility to pay for instructional expenses (including personnel) while county governments pay for capital expenses (buildings and maintenance) unless there are statewide bond referendums or other state solutions.

Under the state constitution and the post-Depression School Machinery Acts, among other laws, it is the state's responsibility to adequately fund public schools.

Under North Carolina's state constitution and school finance laws, it is the state's responsibility to pay for instructional expenses (including personnel) while county governments generally pay for capital expenses (buildings and maintenance) unless there are statewide bond referendums or other state solutions.

As a large number of New Hampshire's nonpublic schools are religious, opponents of school choice have challenged the program under, among other things, an 1877 amendment to the state constitution frequently referred to as a Blaine Amendment.

In 2005, the Public School Forum published the results of its eleventh biennial study group, offering detailed strategies to provide every child in the state with an equal opportunity to obtain a sound basic education, as guaranteed under the North Carolina Constitution.1 Public School Forum (2005).

Since the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Decision in San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez, which established that public education is not a right under the federal Constitution, state courts have been the battlegrounds for resolving disputes regarding public education finance systems.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rState's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rstate's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rstate's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.&rstate to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

Meanwhile, school voucher proponents are waging a determined and coordinated attack on the state constitutional provisions themselves, saying that these state restrictions are unconstitutional under various provisions of the federal Constitution.

Last fall, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that charter schools are unconstitutional because charters do not have elected boards and therefore aren't «common» schools under the state's constitution, which means they are not entitled to dollars from the state's general fund.

Meanwhile, a trial just wrapped up in state court in Hartford in a lawsuit accusing the state of underfunding low - performing neighborhood schools and asking the court to set a standard for educational quality required under the state constitution.

The Kansas Senate approved an amendment that would prohibit the courts from ordering more money for schools («The financing of the educational interests of the state is exclusively a legislative power under article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas and as such shall be established solely by the legislature.»)

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