Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, attacked Conservative education policy for an obsession with a «tiny handful» of free
schools at the expense of «how you properly
finance 24,000
schools across the
whole school system».
While we are glad the governor's FY 2019 proposed changes maintain the overall structure of the new ECS formula and do not delay the implementation of the formula, there are several areas where the ECS formula — and Connecticut's
school finance system as a
whole — can, and should, be improved.
While we are glad the governor's FY 2019 proposed budget adjustments maintain the overall structure of the new ECS formula and do not delay the implementation of the formula, there are several areas where the ECS formula — and Connecticut's
school finance system as a
whole — can, and should, be improved.
; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice
system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the
whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law
schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who
finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice
system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»