Sentences with phrase «spare education clause»

The case became one of the nation's most successful educational - adequacy lawsuits when New York's highest court, the Court of appeals, ruled that the state constitution's spare education clause guaranteed a «sound basic education» to every child.

In CFE v. New York, another state with a spare education clause, Judge De Grasse without apology explained that in education litigation courts «are called on to give content to Education Clauses that are composed of terse generalities,» which in New York's case is «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.»