Sentences with phrase «uniform system of public schools»

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Holding that the state's school finance system was rationally related to the constitution's requirement to provide «a thorough and uniform» system of public schools, the majority rejected the trial court's decision in its entirety.

Seizing also on the requirement of uniformity, the court asserted that private schools are not uniform when compared with each other or with the public system.

The 22,395 - student Federal Way district, located between Seattle and Tacoma, declared in its lawsuit — filed Nov. 21 in King County Superior Court — that the formula violates the state constitutional requirement that the state create a «general and uniform» system of public schools.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

In Florida they won a victory early in 2006 when that state's supreme court struck down a voucher program on the grounds that the constitutional command of a «uniform... system of free public schools» prohibited any alternative.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

Unfortunately, in January of 2006, the Florida Supreme Court ruled the program unconstitutional primarily on the grounds that it created competition with the public school system and because the private schools were not «uniform» with our public schools, which is the whole point of school choice.

The Harford County Public School System maintains a reasonably uniform system of education for its youth, providing educational experiences and opportunities designed to meet unique student System maintains a reasonably uniform system of education for its youth, providing educational experiences and opportunities designed to meet unique student system of education for its youth, providing educational experiences and opportunities designed to meet unique student needs.

Fund Education Now grades legislators on their efforts to provide and fund «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality education» as outlined in Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Constitution.

A 2012 state law prompted the overhaul of the state's existing quality rating system and required a uniform rating system for all early childhood programs that receive any public funding, including private providers, federally funded Head Start centers and pre-K classrooms in public and private schools.

In a suit challenging the state's school finance system, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that its education provision requiring uniform public schools (Article X, Section 3) related to the character of instruction offered in the public schools, and not the size, boundaries or composition of the school districts.

So she teamed up with other education advocates to sue the state, arguing that Florida is violating its Constitutional obligation to provide «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools.»

Judge Hobgood granted his injunction to temporarily halt the school voucher program on the basis of voucher challengers» first claim for relief: that the state constitution requires that state funds be used exclusively for establishing and maintaining a uniform system of free public schools.

Several provisions in the Colorado Constitution prevent the state and school districts from raising and expending funds necessary to establish and maintain a «thorough and uniform» system of free public schools.

Having invalidated the programs on these grounds, the court declined to address whether the programs also violate the Arizona Constitution's requirement for the «establishment and maintenance of a general and uniform public school system.»

Several provisions in the Colorado Constitution prevent the State and school districts from raising and expending funds necessary to establish and maintain a thorough and uniform system of free public schools.

Last month, Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in the case of Lobato vs. State of Colorado that Colorado's current public school finance system fails to meet state constitutional requirements to maintain a thorough and uniform public school system.

Instead, it is by complying with our state constitution and restoring a uniform system of fully funded public schools so that every student has an opportunity to receive a quality education including a fully qualified teacher and low class sizes so that struggling students can get the help they need to succeed in school and succeed in life.

We conclude that as long as the Legislature maintains a uniform public school system, open and available to all students, the constitutional mandate of Section 2 is satisfied, and the Legislature may encourage other suitable educational measures under Section 1.

It said, «[t] he Meredith court distinguished the Bush decision because the Indiana Constitution contained no «adequate provision» clause and no restriction on the mandate to provide a free public school system, and instead contained two distinct duties — «to encourage... moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement,» and «to provide... for a general and uniform system of Common Schools.

1) appropriates to private schools grades K - 12, by use of funds which apparently have gone to the university system budget but which should be used exclusively for establishing and maintaining the uniform system of free public schools;

During the Great Depression the state assumed the major role for funding schools: «provided for the operation of a uniform system of schools in the whole State for a term of eight months... and relieved the county board of education of the responsibility for operating and maintaining the public schools of the county,» according to the 1933 School Machinery Act.

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.»

The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of free public schools, which shall be maintained at least nine months in every year, and wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all students.

The state's constitution does have a «uniformity clause,» however, requiring that the state provide a general and uniform system of free public schools.

After protracted court proceedings, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Florida Opportunity Scholarship Program, a universal voucher program, violated Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Constitution: «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, safe, secure and high - quality system of free public schools.

The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of free public schools, which shall be maintained at least nine months in every year, and wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all students.