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		<title>Gov. Christie&#8217;s Proposal Would Add More Than $300M to N.J. Education Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday threw money behind his promise to support education in New Jersey, proposing in his budget address an increase of $108 million for higher education and a nearly $213 million more for K-12 school districts. Christie called higher education the &#8220;key to advancement&#8221; and proposed increasing both the amount the state provides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TX Lawmakers Debate Restoring Funds to Public Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas is rebounding from a severe recession with significant job growth, higher than expected tax revenues and a rosier forecast that should influence state leaders to resist more public school budget cuts next year, some Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday. But Republican leaders, mindful of Gov. Rick Perry&#8217;s opposition to a special session to address school funding, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama Judge Dismisses Lawsuit on Property-Tax System</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October, 21, 2011, U.S. District Judge C. Lynwood Smith Jr. dismissed Lynch v. Alabama, ruling that Alabama’s property-tax system does not deny  equal-protection to black and low-income students under the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution. The case, filed in March of 2008, was brought by children and parents in Lawrence and Sumter counties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Needs NYC Children Need Not Apply</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall for the first time, local schools are supposed to serve all but the most disabled special needs students in their zone, a change cheered by education advocates,. But parents in some neighborhoods are being turned away by school staff, who are either unaware of the new policy or overwhelmed by its implications. Michael&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States Seek to Boost K-12 Aid as Revenue Recovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buoyed by gradual increases in tax revenues, many states are looking to devote more money to schools in the coming year, after having held the line or made significant reductions during the Great Recession and its aftermath. Yet even accounting for those proposed increases in spending, budget analysts and local officials predict that states and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head Start Providers Stand to Lose Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerns are mounting that strict new federal rules meant to improve the quality of Head Start preschool services for poor children could drive good providers out of business, as scores of Head Start programs begin to face the specter of losing the federal funding they have received for decades. Under regulations that were announced late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Supreme Court Holds that State Is Not Adequately Funding Public Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a virtually unanimous ruling[1], the Washington Supreme Court began the new year by strongly affirming the trial court’s holding that the state was in violation of Art. IX, § 1 of the state constitution because it had not provided “ample” funding for the basic education to which all students are entitled. McCleary v. State. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Funding Cases in Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Washington Litigation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historical Background In 1974 the Supreme Court of Washington upheld the state&#8217;s system of funding and operating the public schools in Northshore School District v. Kinnear, 550 P.2d 178. However, only four years later, in Seattle School District No. 1 v. State, 585 P.2d 71, the same court ruled the state&#8217;s school finance system unconstitutional. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth Major Funding Suit Filed in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston, Dallas, Austin and 60 other school districts, representing 1.5 million students or one-third of the lone star state’s school population, filed a suit in late December challenging the state’s school funding system on both adequacy and equity grounds. Fort Bend Ind’t Sch. Dist. v. Scott. This suit is in addition to three cases previously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on School Funding Issues in New York State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Wall Street Journal article published on December 27, 2011, Michael A. Rebell, the executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, describes the research currently being completed at the Campaign to determine whether, given current resource levels, schools in New York City and New York State are providing students [...]]]></description>
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