States on Ropes in Finance Lawsuits

Autor/in	Hoff, David J.
Titel	States on Ropes in Finance Lawsuits
Quelle	In: Education Week, 24 (2004) 15, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Finance; Court Litigation; Standards; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Academic Achievement; Kentucky; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsfonds; Rechtsstreit; Standard; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Schulleistung
Abstract	This article describes how the litigation over whether states are adequately financing their K-12 schools has tipped in favor of those who say they are not. Of the six major judicial decisions in the past 18 months, advocates of increased school funding have won each time, dramatically changing the finance landscape in those states. Advocates for plaintiffs in school finance cases point to several factors behind their winning streak, such as new data from standards-based reforms and emerging research that suggests ways to improve student achievement. School finance plaintiffs say that their current streak started with July 2003 decision by New York's highest court. The plaintiffs' success in adequacy-based school finance suits began with the 1989 Kentucky Supreme Court decision that declared the state's school system unconstitutional and ordered the legislature to appropriate enough money "to provide each child in Kentucky an adequate education." (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10