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School Funding Updates
May 2, 2013
- California Advocates Claim Lack of Services to English Learners
- State Asks Arizona Supreme Court to Overturn School Funding Decision
- State Funding for Preschool Drops by More Than Half a Billion Dollars
- Pennsylvania Passes Legislation to Fix Special Education Funding Formula
March 15, 2013
- Kansas Supreme Court Orders Mediation in School Funding
- Court Stops New York from Denying NYC Kids $260 Million
- National Education Commission Calls for Sufficient Resources to Ensure Comprehensive Educational Opportunities for All Kids
- Parties in Connecticut School Funding Litigation File Briefs with the Court
- New York State Teachers Union Files Lawsuit to Overturn State Property Tax Cap
February 11, 2013
- Texas Court Declares School Funding System Unconstitutional
- NYC Parents Challenge $250 Million Penalty for Teacher Evaluation Impasse
- Arizona Appeals Court Says State Education Funds Must Account for Inflation
- Colorado Lawmakers Consider Reforms to School Funding Formula
January 17, 2013
- Kansas Court Holds School Funding Cuts Unconstitutional
- NY Education Reform Commission Releases Preliminary Recommendations
- Washington Supreme Orders Legislature to Develop a “Concrete Plan” for “Ample” Education Funding
- Appeal Briefs Filed in California Adequacy Case
December 19, 2012
- Arkansas Supreme Court Issues Controversial Equity/Adequacy Ruling
- Campaign for Educational Equity Releases Reports that Reveal Wide-Spread Lack of Essential Resources in New York Schools
- In a Climate of Budget Cuts, Oregon Governor Seeks to Increase Investment in Education
November 26, 2012
- Budget Pressures Resulted in Increased Resort to Ballot Propositions on Election Day
- Report Finds Connecticut Underfunds Education by More Than $763 Million
- Kansas Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging Local Education Funding Cap
- Report Indicates That States Largely Ignore Constitutional Mandates to Prepare Students to be Capable Citizens
October 4, 2012
- Idaho Lawsuit Challenges School Fees
- Washington Supreme Court Considers Supermajority Tax Issue
- Appeals Briefs Filed in Colorado Adequacy Case
- Report Illuminates “Stealth Inequities” in School Funding Systems
- Florida Supreme Court Allows School Funding Case to Proceed to Trial
- Education Budgets Shrink in Twenty-Six States
September 4, 2012
- North Carolina Court of Appeals Upholds Mandate on Pre-K for At-Risk Children
- PA’s Chester-Upland School District Reaches Settlement in School Funding Lawsuit
- Rebell Publishes New Article on Judicial Responses to Budget Cuts
- Missouri Court Declares School Transfer Law Unconstitutional
- Connecticut Invests Substantial Resources to Improve Low-Performing Schools
- Poll Shows Americans Support More Funding for Education
July 25, 2012
- Michigan Lawsuit Hones in on Failure to Teach Reading
- California Reneges on 8-year-old School Funding Settlement Agreement
- Washington Supreme Court Issues Order on Retention of Jurisdiction
- Plaintiffs Suffer Set-Back in Rhode Island Case
- Reports Confirm the Costs of Implementing Common Core
June 29, 2012
- NY’s Highest Court Re-Affirms Viability of CFE Precedent
- Attempt to Enact Constitutional Amendment Fails in New Hampshire
- South Carolina Supreme Court Orders Re-Argument in Long-Pending Funding Case
- Budget Woes in L.A. Have Detrimental Effects on Educational Opportunity
- NY Times Series Highlights Inequities in PTA Fundraising
May 11, 2012
- Trial Commences in PA On Creative Federal Funding Claims
- Iowa High Court Declines To Impose Academic Standards, But Leaves Open the Issue of Whether Education Is a Fundamental Interest
- Missouri Court Invalidates Unfunded School Transfer Plan
- Massachusetts Report Highlights Correlation Between Low-Income and Placement in Special Education
- California County Sued for Misapplying School Property Taxes
April 16, 2012
- Kansas House Rejects Proposed Constitutional Amendment
- Settlement Reached in Montana Funding Dispute
- Michael Rebell’s “The Right to Comprehensive Educational Opportunity” is Published by the Harvard CR-CL Law Review
- Pennsylvania Lawmakers Plan to File Lawsuit Over State Education Funding Formula
- California County Sued for Misapplying School Property Taxes
March 26, 2012
- California Court Rejects State’s Motion in Schools Fees Case
- “Efficiency Intervenors” Seek to Join in Texas Litigation
- State Asks Washington Supreme Court to Retain Jurisdiction in Adequacy Case
- N.Y. Conferences Seek to “Safeguard Sound Basic Education in Hard Economic Times”
- OCR Data Reveals Substantial Educational Disparities for Minority Students
January 18, 2012
- Washington Supreme Court Holds that State Is Not Adequately Funding Public Education
- Fourth Major Funding Suit Filed in Texas
- Update on School Funding Issues in New York State
- New Report Definitively Finds that Money Does Matter
December 15, 2011
- Colorado Judge Issues Important Adequacy Ruling
- Two More Texas Groups File Adequacy and Equity Law Suits
- L.A. School District Sues to Save Bus Funding
- Comprehensive Educational Opportunities Needed in Policy Initiatives
December 5, 2011
- New Federal Report Confirms Inequities in Title I Funding
- Major Adequacy Issue to Be Decided by Florida Supreme Court
- Adequacy Compliance Issue Raised in Arkansas Appeal
- Montana Coalition Seeks Court Order on Mandated Funding
- California Fees Case Returns to Court
- “Occupy” Movements Put a Spotlight on Inequities in Education
October 20, 2011
- Long Standing Alaska Facilities Case Finally Settled
- New Equity and Adequacy Suit Filed in Texas
- Rural Districts in New Jersey Fight Budget Cuts
- New Constitutional Challenge To Budget Cuts In California
- The Pew Center on the States Releases Final Pre-K Report, But Budget Cuts May Undermine the Progress It Has Documented
- Equity Campaign Argues That Comprehensive Services For All Low Income Students Are “Achievable And Affordable”
September 21, 2011
- South Dakota Supreme Court Rejects Adequacy Claim
- North Carolina Court Re-asserts Order to Provide Free Pre-K Program
- New York Times’ Op-ed: When Schools Depend on Handouts
- Adequacy Case Argued Before Florida Appeals Court
- Advocates Preparing New Equity Litigation in Texas
August 2, 2011
- California Court Rejects Innovative Equal Protection Theory
- Judge in North Carolina Invalidates Budget Cut Legislation
- Fiscal Pressures Cannot Justify Inadequate Education, Colorado Court Rules
- OCR Data Reveals Major Inequities in Resource Availability
April 29, 2011
- Campaign Initiates New Project to Safeguard Students’ Constitutional Rights in Hard Economic Times
- Legal Updates, California and Rhode Island
- Michigan Law Review Sets Up “Battle of the Education Heavy-Weights” in Book Review of Courts & Kids and Schoolhouses, Courthouses and Statehouses
- National Equity and Excellence Commission Update
- N.J. Judge Rules Budget Cuts Deny Students Thorough and Efficient Education
- Rebell Claims Budget Cuts in N.Y. are Unconstitutional
- Legal Updates
- USDOE Establishes Commission to Analyze Equity in Education Finance; Rebell and 27 Others Named
- Constitutional Amendment Proposed in Kansas
- Study Shows Substantial Economic Returns on Investments in Comprehensive Early Childhood Programs
- California Court Allows Broadly Framed Equity Claims to Continue; Status of Adequacy Allegations Remains Unclear
- PISA Scores, Broken Down by Poverty Rate, Indicate U.S. is Failing to Educate Low-Income Children
- New Jersey Supreme Court Remands for an Evidentiary Hearing Abbott Plaintiffs’ Challenge to State Aid Cuts
- Litigation Strategies for Hard Times, Michael A. Rebell
- Litigation Round-Up: CA, IN, KS, NJ, SD, WA
- Studies Show Positive Impact of CFE Funding
- Lessons from the PISA Scores, William J. Mathis
- New Report Focuses on Funding Inequities Nationwide
- Federal Appeals Panel Holds that Alternative Certification Teacher Interns are not “Highly Qualified”
- L.A. Settlement Partially Sets Aside Layoff Rules
- OCR Settlement in Boston Schools Promises Major Improvements in ELL Programming
- ACLU Sues State of California for Charging Student Fees
- Florida Education Adequacy Case Withstands Motion to Dismiss
- Polls Indicate that Americans Support More Spending on Education
- D.C. Teachers Contract Provides for Performance Pay and Job Security Modifications
- New Federal Money Eases, But Does Not Eliminate, Impact of State Budget Cuts
- New Report Focuses on Improving Teacher Effectiveness by Improving Preparation Programs and Competency Testing
- Civil Rights Groups Criticize USDOE Stance on NCLB Reauthorization
- USDOE Creates New Commission on Equity in School Funding
- Increasing Number of Legal Actions Challenge Constitutionality of Budget Cuts
- Advocacy Organizations in California File Second School Funding Lawsuit
- Advocates Skeptical of Rhode Island’s New School Funding Formula; Woonsocket Plaintiffs to Continue with Litigatio
- Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal in NCLB Case
- ACLU Report Advocates for Financing a $2.8 Billion Facilities Plan in Baltimore
- Court Enjoins Layoffs at Three Los Angeles Unified Schools, Upholding Students’ Right to Equal Educational Opportunity Despite State’s Budget Crisis
- Two New Education Adequacy Cases in California
- Education Organizations Sue NY Governor for Withholding School Aid
- Study Evaluates Advantages, Drawbacks of Value-Added Measures
- New Book Calls for New Role for the Courts in Promoting Social Change
- Connecticut Supreme Court Holds that the State Constitution Guarantees Students the Right to an Adequate Education
- Editorial: USDOE Position on ESEA: Weak on Equity and Adequacy
- Layoffs, Education Cuts Serve as Impetus for New Lawsuits Filed in California and Indiana
- Legal Updates: Illinois, North Carolina
- Changes in Teacher Pension Systems Face Legal Scrutiny
- Equity Symposium Presents Studies, On-the-Ground Perspectives on Education Stimulus Impact
- Legal Updates: WA, KS and RI
- Safeguarding the Right to a Sound Basic Education in Times of Fiscal Constraint
- Book Review: The Schoolhouse and the Courthouse
- N. Carolina judge convenes hearing on maintaining adequacy during fiscal downturn
- Final Race to the Top requirements address funding equity issues
- Two Florida lawsuits seek to enforce new constitutional provisions
- Legal Updates: CO, WA and 6th Circuit
- Campaign for Educational Equity announces fifth annual equity symposium: “Stimulating Equity?: The Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on Educational Opportunity”
- New book acclaims adequacy litigations
- Charter advocates challenge school finance systems in Arizona and North Carolina
- Interview with Tim Hogan, AZ Plaintiff Attorney
- Inspector General report raises concerns over states’ stimulus use
- Legal Updates: Missouri, North Carolina and Washington
- Advocates press for greater emphasis on funding equity in Race to the Top Regs
- Amidst recession, states confront mounting teacher pension costs
- U.S. lagging in supporting children’s well-being, says OECD report
- Preliminary analysis of states’ intended use of federal stimulus funds raises serious questions
- Legal Updates: South Dakota and California
- Interview with Andru Volinsky, N.H. Plaintiff Attorney
- Abbott preschool participants outperform peers, study shows
- U.S. Supreme Court Remands Arizona ELL Funding Case For Further Hearings
- Campaign for Educational Equity Announces “Stimulating Equity?” Project
- Stanford Study Offers Mixed Appraisal of Charters
- New Jersey Supreme Court Grants States’ Motion to end Abbott Remedies
- Hanushek and Lindseth’s New Book: Purporting to Have All the Answers
- 9th Annual Quality Education Conference: Strengthening Opportunities to Learn in Challenging Economic Times
- Blocking Budget Cuts: Constitutional Perspectives
- “Judicial Activism” is Constitutionally Required: A Keynote Message by Judge Terry L. Bullock
- The Federal Stimulus Bill and ESEA Reauthorization: Pitfalls and Possibilities
- Reframing the Debate on Charters and Vouchers
- Legal Updates: Illinois and South Dakota
- Major ELL Funding Case Goes to U.S. Supreme Court
- Ohio is Back on Track for Constitutional Compliance
- New Jersey Judge Recommends New Path for Old Litigation
- 9th Annual Quality Education Conference
- Stimulus Bill Promotes Stable, Adequate Funding
- Profile: Arne Duncan
- 9th Annual Quality Education Conference: Strengthening Opportunities to Learn in Challenging Economic Times
- Legal Updates: Alaska and Oregon
- Editorial: Strategies for Countering Budget Cuts
- Thinking Big About How to Close the Gap
- Legal Updates: Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey
- The Role of the Courts: An Editorial Comment
- Obama and Comprehensive Educational Equity
- Developments on High Stakes Testing
- Tracking Educational Adequacy in Arkansas: A New Legislative Approach
- Adequacy Trial in Alaska: The Remedy Phase
- Two Reports Illuminate Limitations of NCLB
- Equity Symposium on Comprehensive Educational Equity:
Overcoming the Socioeconomic Barriers to School Success
- Major New Case Filed In Illinois
- Multi-Pronged Approaches to Education Reform: The South Carolina and Illinois Examples
- Trial About to Begin in South Dakota
- State’s Motion Denied in Georgia
- 2008 Quality Education Conference Sets New Horizons for the Adequacy Movement
- Sustaining Success: The Court’s Role in Education Adequacy
- The Special Role of the Courts in the Education Adequacy Movement
- Righting Rodriguez: Implications for Advancing a Federal Constitutional Right to Education
- Pollster Cornell Belcher’s Session on How to Promote Equity and Adequacy
- Register Now For the 2008 ACCESS Quality Education Conference!
- Plaintiffs Prevail in Two Important New Decisions
- Analysis of Adequacy Studies Shows Trend Toward Increased Weightings for Poverty and Minority Students
- New Cases Filed in Iowa and Alabama Raise Innovative Adequacy and Equity Theories
- Targeted Class-Size Reduction Can be Conducive to Educational Equity
- New Jersey A.G. Moves to Terminate Long-Pending Abbott Litigation
- Assessing Achievement Gaps Comprehensively
- More Evidence of Adequacy Cases Leading to Improvements in Student Achievement
- ACLU Tests New Adequacy Theory in Florida Case
- Educational Equity Requires School Reform – and More
- 8th Annual Quality Education Conference: June 11-12, 2008, Washington D.C
- The Education Adequacy Movement – The Only Game in Town
- Emergent Bilinguals: How Policy Has Misunderstood a National Resource
- New Mexico Cost Study Calls for a 14.5 Percent Increase in School Funding
- Report Warns to “Watch the Gap” in Education Funding
- New Jersey Announces a New School Funding Formula: But What About Abbott?
- Connecticut Plaintiffs File Appeal
- Success Story – Title I’s Targeted Funding Formula
- Report Sees Substantial Improvement in Teacher Quality
- EDITORIAL: A Rekindled NCLB Suit Raises Concerns
- Pennsylvania Study Combines Methodologies and Tries to Cost Out “100 Percent Proficiency”
- Funding Needed to Boost English Language Learners Over State Exit Exam Hurdle
- Proceedings from the Campaign for Educational Equity’s 3rd Annual Symposium:
- “Equal Educational Opportunity: What Now?”
- Diversity, Integration and the Supreme Court’s Seattle Ruling
- Success: Better Education through Litigation!
- EDITORIAL: Adequacy Cases are Alive and Well
- The Public of South Carolina Envisions Excellent Public Schools
- California Advocates Have Facts for “Year of Education”
- Interventions Curb Dropout Rates and Give Solid Returns on Investment
- A Gap Between Public and Private Schools? Not in Student Performance!
- Plaintiffs Disappointed by Missouri Trial Court Ruling
- Immigration Trends: Two Reports Tell Us About Our Future
- Report on Alternative High School Graduation Routes
- Litigation Update: South Carolina, New Hampshire, Alaska and Others
- Lawsuit: “Highly Qualified Teacher” Rule Violates NCLB and Harms Students
- Will Plaintiffs Appeal South Carolina “Minimally Adequate” Decision?
- Assisting Schools “In Improvement” Without Enough Funding
- Public Wants Dramatic Changes in NCLB
- Proceedings from the 7th Annual Quality Education Conference:
- Working Together for Better Education
- On the Ground and Pushing for Change: Grassroots Organizing
- Editorial: State Education Advocacy More Important than Ever as US Supreme Court Slams Door on Integration
- Constitution Satisfied in AR, Mixed Ruling in AK, Suit Dropped in KY, NH Meets Court Deadline
- Proceedings from the 7th Annual Quality Education Conference:
- Looking to “Build on Success”
- Speakers Discuss the Future of the Quality Education Movement
- Congressman Rangel Calls for a National “Crusade” for Education
- Next Generation Cost Studies
- What Is Really Driving Up School Costs?
- What Is The Future of School Integration?
- Litigation and Cost Study News from NJ
- Conference Will Feature Advocacy Organizations
- NE, OK and AZ Courts End School Funding Cases
- Success and Funding Draw NJ Voucher Lawsuit
- Editorial: “Getting Down to Facts” Requires Gearing Up for Change
- Public School Supporters Fight UT Voucher Plan
- Join Us In June!
- Courting Failure Fails to Impress
- Consolidation Harms Students, May Not Save Money
- CFE Money Flowing to NY Districts This Year
- CA Study Reveals Staggering Resource Gaps
- Court Finds AZ Under-Funds ELLs
- WI Study Illuminates Costing-Out Complexities
- New Book Looks at School Segregation in CT
- “Falling” Test Scores Are Meaningless Measures
- UNICEF Finds US Among Worst Places to be a Kid
- MN Coalition Pushes for “21st Century” Funding
- Think Tank Reports “Severely Flawed”
- Conference: “Fixing No Child Left Behind”
- Litigation Update: MO, KY, IN, NE, OK
- Grassroots Successes in ME and MS
- NY Governor Spitzer Proposes Major Reforms
- School Beyond the Four Walls
- Why We Still Need Public Schools
- Missouri Trial
- New Washington Lawsuit
- Education “Through a Wider Lens”
- “Close the Gap” in Florida
- Skills Commission Report Contains Overlooked Recommendations
- Litigation Update: AZ, AR, and ID
- Public Education Funding and Achievement Grow
- MT, OH & OR Advocates Push for Better Funding
- Rebell & Hanushek Face Off on the Future of Public Education
- Beyond NCLB
- Can Schools Alone Lift 100 Percent of Children to Proficiency by 2014?
- School Funding Lawsuit Filed in WA
- Myth-Dispelling Schools Have Keys to Success
- NJ Legislature Proposes Sweeping School Funding Changes
- Conferences Address School Funding
- Briefs Examine Benefits of School Integration
- “Dismantling a Community” in New Orleans
- Neediest Students Not Receiving Fair Allocation of Facilities Funds
- School Funding Election Results Mixed Across States
- NCLB Reauthorization Raises Practical and Moral Concerns
- Adequacy Trial Begins in AK, Oral Arguments in NY, Preliminary Hearing in GA
- Out-of-State Money Funds “Local” Pro-Voucher PACs
- Rebell Argues for More “Professional Rigor” in Cost Studies
- From Statehouse to Courthouse, Preschool Gaining Ground
- Reader Response: Decentralization Requires Serious Consideration
- Advocacy Groups and Local Officials Declare “Act for Education Month”
- Editorial: “100% Solution” Fails the Test
- NH Supreme Court Requires State to Define an Adequate Education
- Education Finance Study in CA; NM and Other States Also Study Costs
- Give Kids Good Schools Campaign Urges Public to “Learn, Vote, Act!”
- Symposium Will Examine Closing Achievement Gaps and NCLB
- Litigation Update: AZ, AK, CA, IN, NY, OR, OK
- U.N. Criticizes School Segregation in U.S.
- Advocates Fight to Fund Rural Schools
- NJ Legislators Look for National Perspective
- Public Supports Public Schools, Disagrees with NCLB
- Kansas Supreme Court Issues Montoy V Decision
- Reports Reveal Resource and Teaching Gaps
- D.C. Education Amendment Tabled
- North Carolina Legislature Funds Education Programs
- NAEP Scores Similar at Public and Private Schools
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Spring 2005, Vol. 5, No. 1/2, “Opportunity Knocks: Adequacy’s Lessons for NCLB Reform”
Fall 2004, Vol. 4, No. 3, “Adequacy Lawsuits: A Mounting Debate, Pro and Con”
Summer 2004, Vol. 4, No. 2, “Courts Assess Compliance: Special Masters and Other Tools”
Winter 2004, Vol. 4, No. 1, “Public School Facilities: Providing Environments That Sustain Learning”
Fall 2003, Vol. 3, No. 3/4, “Democracy and Public Schools: Preparing Students for Civic Participation”
Summer 2003, Vol. 3, No. 2, “CFE v. State Victory: Good for New York, Good for the Nation”
Spring 2003, Vol. 3, No. 1, “A Dialogue for Change: Public Engagement & School Reform”
Winter 2002, Vol. 2, No. 3/4, Reciprocal Accountability: A Model for Reform
September/October 2002, Vol. 2, No. 2, “Making Money Matter” Programs That Work”
Spring 2002, Vol. 2, No. 1, “Courts Foster Dialogue: An Emerging Model for Education Reform”
Fall/Winter 2001, Vol. 1 No. 3/4, “Equal Educational Opportunity After September 11th
Summer 2001, Vol. 1 No. 2, “Costing Out an Adequate Education”
Spring 2001, Vol. 1 No. 1, “Arguing Adequacy”
