Recent Litigation Events
2008
May
5, 2008
- Montana District Court denies defendant motion to
dismiss motion for supplemental relief
May
2, 2008
- Indiana Court of Appeals rules quality education
is justiciable
April 3, 2008
- Iowa plaintiffs file petition for the state to adopt
educational standards
March
18, 2008
- Florida ACLU files lawsuit for low graduation rates
March 13, 2008
- Alabama plaintiffs allege state Constitution allows
under funding of K-12 rural and majority black schools
March
12, 2008
- Corzine administration urges state Supreme Court
to end Abbott lawsuit
February 22, 2008
- Ninth Circuit affirms district court judgment in
favor of AZ plaintiffs in ELL funding case
February 5, 2008
- Montana advocates return to court with new school
funding lawsuit
January 24, 2008
- Colorado Court of Appeals affirms District Court’s
judgment in favor of the State
Janaury
8, 2008
- Connecticut plaintiffs appeal Superior Court's dismissal
of CCJEF v. Rell
January 8, 2008
- Wyoming Supreme Court rules school funding system
constitutional, ending years of court oversight
January
7, 2008
- 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rules against NCLB's
"unfunded mandates"
2007
November 2, 2007
- Washington Judge rules that state’s salary
funding method is unconstitutional
September
14, 2007
- South Carolina Plaintiffs appeal trial court ruling
- New Hamphsire asks state supreme court to end Londonerry
- Alaska motions for hearing and reconsideration in
Moore
September 2007
- Connecticut Superior Court dismisses plaintiff adequacy
claims, but permits equity claims to proceed to trial
October 11, 2007
- Arizona judge gives legislature until March 4,
2008 to bring ELL funding into compliance
August 29,
2007
- Missouri Circuit Court Judge issues preliminary
order stating that only 25% of state revenues must
be used to fund public schools
August 24, 2007
- Washington court denies plaintiffs’ motion
for summary judgment in Mcleary
August
2007
- California plaintiffs file lawsuit against state
for allowing teachers in training to be considered
highly qualified
July
30, 2007
- South Carolina Judge denies plaintiff and defendant
motions to reconsider 2005 ruling
July
3, 2007
- Constitution Satisfied in Arkansas
- Mixed Ruling in Alaska
- Suit Dropped in Kentucky
- New Hampshire Meets Court Deadline
June 21, 2007
- Alaska trial court rules state violates Education
Clause
May
17, 2007
- Nebraska Supreme Court rules that educational adequacy
is non-justiciable
- Oklahoma Supreme Court rules that educational adequacy
is non-justiciable
- Arizona Supreme Court refuses to hear plaintiffs’
appeal
May 3, 2007
- North Dakota plaintiffs drop their suit
May
1, 2007
- Success and Better Funding Draw Voucher Lawsuit
in New Jersey
May 2007
- South Dakota A.G. says school districts lack standing
to sue the State
April 27, 2007
- Supreme Court rules that New Mexico is allowed
to deduct federal impact aid to school districts
April
5, 2007
- Court Finds Arizona Under-Funds ELLs
- Closing Arguments in Missouri
- Motion for Reconsideration in Kentucky
February
20, 2007
- Lawsuit Dismissed in Kentucky
- Lawsuit Dismissed in Indiana
- Oral Argument in Nebraska
- Appeal Progress in Oklahoma
- Trial Continues in Missouri
January
12, 2007
- Second School Funding Lawsuit Filed in Washington
January
11, 2007
- Late Defendant-Intervenors Fail to Stop Missouri
Trial
January 11, 2007
- Washington Plaintiffs file McCleary v. State,
arguing that the state fails to fund a basic education
for its children
2006
December
12, 2006
- Summary Judgment in Arizona Will Be Appealed
- Extension of Jurisdiction in Arkansas
- Confusion in Idaho
November
28, 2006
- School Funding Adequacy and Equity Lawsuit Filed
in Washington State
November
20, 2006
- New York Court Orders Historic $1.93 Billion Additional
Funding in Final CFE Ruling
November 20, 2006
- Federal Way School District asks Washington Supreme
Court to declasre school funding system unconstitutional
October
13, 2006
- Adequacy Trial Begins in Alaska
- Oral Arguments in New York
- Preliminary Hearing in Georgia
September
14, 2006
- New Hampshire Supreme Court Requires State to Define
an Adequate Education
August
29, 2006
- Ninth Circuit Decision in Arizona Flores
appeal
- Alaska: Standard of Review
- California: Williams Compliance
- Appeal in New York
- Indiana, Oregon, and Oklahoma file motions to dimiss
July
31, 2006
- Kansas Supreme Court: Legislature Has Complied With
Montoy Orders
June
27, 2006
- Compliance Proceedings in Kansas
- Compliance Proceedings in Montana
- New Jersey Supreme Court Grants State Motion to
Freeze Funding
- Appeal in New York
June
26, 2006
- South Dakota Schools, Students, and Parents Seek
“Adequate and Quality Education” in State
Court Action
May
11, 2006
- New Mexico Plaintiffs Claim State is Backtracking
on Capital Funding
April
24, 2006
- Indiana Plaintiffs File Adequacy Lawsuit
April
13, 2006
- Arkansas Increases Funding After Court Rules
March
31, 2006
- $11.2 Billion for New York City Facilities after
Court Ruling
March
31, 2006
- Oregon Plaintiffs File School Funding Lawsuit
March 21, 2006
- Oregon plaintiffs file Pendleton School District
v. State
March
13, 2006
- New Hampshire Court Declares Funding System Unconstitutional
March
1, 2006
- North Dakota Parties Agree to Stay Suit
- Wyoming Compliance Decision
- Kentucky Motion for Summary Judgment
- Alaska Court Denies Motion to Dismiss
- Facilities Compliance Proceedings in New Jersey
- Legislative Activity in Arkansas, Texas, Montana
- Missouri Amended Complaint Filed
February
28, 2006
- Court-Ordered Fines Reach $20 Million in Arizona
January
31, 2006
- School Funding Suit Filed Against State of Oklahoma
January
5, 2006
- Georgia Supreme Court Rules Adequacy Case Must Be
Heard
2005
December
30, 2005
- Sanctions against Arizona for Inaction on ELL Funding,
Court Suspends High Stakes Tests for Students Denied
Opportunity
December
29, 2005
- South Carolina Court Orders Preschool through Third-Grade
Interventions to Counter Poverty, Declares State Education
Funding System Unconstitutional
December
21, 2005
- Idaho Supreme Court Declares State Funding System
Unconstitutional and Retains Jurisdiction
December
16, 2005
- Arkansas Supreme Court Declares Funding System Unconstitutional
November
29, 2005
- Connecticut Plaintiffs File School Funding Lawsuit
November
22, 2005
- Texas Supreme Court Declares School Funding System
Unconstitutional
October
31, 2005
- Georgia Court Rules Adequacy Lawsuit Must Be Heard
October
20, 2005
- Nebraska Court Dismisses “Adequacy” Case, Plaintiffs
Will Appeal
October
7, 2005
- Special Masters Urge State to “Regain the High Ground”
in Arkansas
August
23, 2005
- Education Law Center Files Motion for School Construction
Funding
August
22, 2005
- Alaska School Funding Lawsuit Moves Forward
July
7, 2005
- Colorado Parents and School Districts File Adequacy
Lawsuit
July
7, 2005
- Kansas Legislature Complies with Supreme Court Ruling,
Increasing School Funding by $148.4 Million
July
1, 2005
- Hearings in Georgia and Texas
- Rulings in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
- Supreme Court Reopens Case in Arkansas
June
16, 2005
- California School Districts Sue State over NCLB
Testing
June
16, 2005
- Kansas Supreme Court Orders Major Funding Increase
May
13, 2005
- Kansas Plaintiffs Challenge State Remedy in Supreme
Court
April
21, 2005
- Kansas Supreme Court Schedules Briefing and Oral
Argument
- Plaintiffs Win as Nebraska Supreme Court Denies
Intervention
- Motions and hearings in New York, North Carolina,
Arkansas
- Opinions Pending in South Carolina and Maryland
April
6, 2005
- Connecticut Will Sue U.S. Over NCLB Cost
March
25, 2005
- Montana Supreme Court Orders New Funding System
Based on “Educationally Relevant Factors”
March
24, 2005
- Campaign for Fiscal Equity Releases Schools for
New York's Future Bill
March
15, 2005
- Litigation Update: Appeal in Maryland and Proceedings
in North Carolina
February
28, 2005
- California Visit by Michael Rebell to Discuss Litigation
and the National Adequacy Movement
February
27, 2005
- Hancock v. Driscoll Case Concludes in Massachusetts
February
14, 2005
- New York Court Affirms Special Masters' Recommendations
for More Funding
January
28, 2005
- Federal Court Orders More Funding for ELL Students
in Arizona
January
5, 2005
- Plaintiff Victory in Kansas: State must Increase
Funding, System must be Cost-based and Equitable
2004
December
14, 2004
- South Carolina Attorneys Present Closing Arguments
- Missouri AG’s Motion for a Stay Countered
by Plaintiffs
- Arizona Motion Seeks Adequacy for ELLs
December
14, 2004
- Judge Declares Texas School Funding Inadequate and
Unconstitutional
November
30, 2004
- Special Masters Recommend Billions for New York
Schools in CFE v. State
November
29, 2004
- Successful Desegregation Plan Struck Down
November
15, 2004
- New Jersey Supreme Court Orders Mediation in Ongoing
Abbott Proceedings
November
10, 2004
- Plaintiff Victory in Montana, “In the Public
Interest,” Court Issues Order in Time for Legislative
Session
October
14, 2004
- Trial Proceeding in South Carolina
- Oral Arguments in Massachusetts
- Oral Arguments Scheduled in Montana
- Oral Arguments in Kansas
September
30, 2004
- Adequacy Lawsuit Seeks Better Future for Georgia
September
17, 2004
- Rapid Ruling in Texas School Funding Lawsuit
August 31,
2004
- Nebraska Rural Schools File "Adequacy"
Suit
August
30, 2004
- Idaho Supreme Court Thwarts Legislature's Attempt
to End School Funding Suit
August
30, 2004
- Maryland Court Orders Better Funding for City Schools,
State Will Appeal
August
26, 2004
- California Settles Williams School Funding
Case
- News in New York, Kansas, Wyoming, Pennsylvania
and Connecticut Cases
August
13, 2004
- North Carolina Plaintiffs Win Major Victory, Supreme
Court Affirms Order Holding State Accountable
June
29, 2004
- Litigation Updates: Arkansas, Massachusetts, Missouri,
Montana, Nebraska and New York
May
27, 2004
- Rulings in Nebraska and Wyoming
- Trials Approaching in Iowa and Texas
- Other News
May
14, 2004
- No Action in Kansas, Court Says State Must Be Held
Accountable
April 28,
2004
- Plaintiff Victory in Massachusetts: Court Addresses
Cost Studies, Preschool and Accountability
April
21, 2004
- Plaintiff Victory in Montana; Funding System Must
Be Based on Educationally Relevant Costs
April
7, 2004
- Special Masters Report on Compliance in Arkansas,
Offer Favorable Views on Early Childhood Education
and Consolidation
March
30, 2004
- Trials, Appeals, and Compliance Questions in South
Carolina, New Jersey, Montana, Massachusetts, Kansas,
and Arkansas
February
23, 2004
- Kentucky Court Denies Motion to Dismiss; School
Funding Suits Consolidated
January
26, 2004
- Arkansas Supreme Court To Use Special Master in
School Funding Case
2003
December
2, 2003
- Kansas Trial Court Declares Funding System Unconstitutional;
Court Relies on Costing-Out Study and Says "Money
Matters"
October
30, 2003
- "For Sale" Sign on Rural Idaho
September
26, 2003
- Arizona School Funding Cases Move Forward
August
26, 2003
- Arizona Intermediate Court Upholds Diversion of
State's School Facilities Funds
June
30, 2003
- New Jersey Supreme Court Orders Mediated Agreement
in Abbott
June 27,
2003
- Major Plaintiff Victory in CFE v. State:
Court Affirms that Money Matters, State Must Undertake
Need-Based Costing Out
June
26, 2003
- As Affirmative Action Dominates Higher Education
News, K-12 Desegregation Orders Quietly Fall
May
30, 2003
- Texas School Finance Case Sent Back to Trial Court
May
22, 2003
- Ohio Supreme Court Turns Away Legal Challenge To
School Finance System
April
30, 2003
- New Jersey's Abbott Parties Ordered into
Mediation to Settle Latest Dispute
April 15,
2003
- Arizona Court Denies State Petition for Appeal in
"At-Risk" Case
March 31,
2003
- North Carolina Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Leandro
Appeal
February 5,
2003
- Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Plaintiffs' School
Funding Claims and Remands Case
January 22,
2003
- Hartford Desegregation Case, Sheff v. O'Neill,
Settles
January 9,
2003
- West Virginia Circuit Court Finds Revised School
Funding System Constitutional
2002
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- Ohio Supreme Court Declares School Funding System
Unconstitutional in DeRolph V
December
2, 2002
- Federal Judge in Massachusetts Declines to Hear
MCAS Case But Retains Jurisdiction on Some Issues
November
21, 2002
- Arkansas Supreme Court Declares School Funding System
Unconstitutional: State Must Prepare Adequacy Study
November
20, 2002
- Idaho Judge Appoints Special Master in School Facilities
Funding Case
October
17, 2002
- Arizona Judge Orders State to Return Money Diverted
from School Facilities
October
8, 2002
- Tennessee Supreme Court Reaffirms its Holding: Constitution
Requires Equal Educational Opportunities and Cost-Based
Funding
June 25,
2002
- Intermediate Court Holds Eighth-Grade Education
Adequate Under State Constitution: Appeal Will Be
Taken to State's Highest Court
June 25,
2002
- Maryland Court Retains Jurisdiction in Adequacy
Case
June
11, 2002
- One-Year "Relaxation" of Remedies in New
Jersey
May
31, 2002
- Alabama Supreme Court Dismisses Funding Case it
Previously Affirmed
April
11, 2002
- New Hampshire Supreme Court Says State Must Hold
School Districts Accountable
April 4, 2002
- Major Victory for Schoolchildren in North Carolina
Superior Court Ruling
February 21, 2002
- New Jersey High Court Reaffirms Ruling to Improve
Abbott Preschools
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