The map below shows school-funding court decisions by state.

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The judicial decisions shown on this map are decisions of the state’s highest court (or a non-appealed lower-court decision) that state whether or not elementary and high school students in the particular state have a legally enforceable right, under the state’s constitution, to “equity” or “adequacy” in school funding. The map does not include follow-up cases or compliance decisions, unless they reverse an initial liability ruling. States are listed as having “mixed results” if the courts have issued multiple decisions regarding these constitutional rights (for example, an “equity” decision favoring the plaintiffs and an “adequacy decision” favoring the defendants).

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Latest Litigation Developments

May 25, 2017
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Mississippi Suit Invokes Reconstruction Era Constitutional Requirement

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed an innovative complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi earlier this week. It alleges that […]
May 25, 2017
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Second Mississippi Suit Attacks Mid-Year Budget Cuts

Two state legislators filed a complaint in Hinds County District Court this week attacking Governor Phil Bryant’s mid-year cuts in appropriations to education and other state […]
May 25, 2017
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NJ School District Files New Adequacy Suit

Freehold Borough, one of the most underfunded school districts in New Jersey, filed a suit earlier this month against the state Department of Education and its […]
May 25, 2017
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NY Court of Appeals to Hear Major School Funding Case

Alleging that the State of New York has not operated a constitutionally compliant state education finance system for the past seven years,  Plaintiffs in NYSER v. […]
May 25, 2017
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Trial Scheduled to Begin in New Mexico Adequacy Case

Seeking an increase of $600 million per year in state aid to education, attorneys for the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty and the Mexican […]
April 17, 2017
Published by schoolfunding at April 17, 2017
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17 Illinois School Distrticts File New Funding Litigation

Although the Illinois Supreme Court has, in two prior decisions, held that the courts have no authority to review school funding decisions of the legislature, 17 Illinois school […]