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Only
three weeks remain until the 7th
Annual Quality Education Conference.
Register
now!
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What
Is Really Driving Up School Costs?
In
Vermont, a last-minute compromise, passed
Saturday night in the final hours of the
state's legislative session, seeks to limit
school spending. William Mathis, superintendent
of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union,
said it was "breath-taking" that
the legislature would pass such a bill as
an eleventh-hour compromise. Mathis has
long been a critic of efforts to artificially
contain school spending. As he explains,
"If our state and national
leaders addressed health care, energy policy,
[and] special education...school costs would
be less and the benefits would multiply
across all elements of our society."
From
the Burlington Free Press:
"Boilers,
Pressures and Budgets"
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| What
Is The Future of School Integration?
Breaking
up concentrated poverty – the “ever-present
attendant” of racial segregation –
should be the next focus of attempts to
integrate schools, should the Supreme Court
not allow integration programs based on
race, according to panelists at a Center
for American Progress event that took place
on May 10. Three of the four panelists agreed
that efforts to promote racial integration
in public schools are as vital now as ever,
and the possibility that the Supreme Court
might throw up another obstacle to school
integration means that we must think of
new ways to promote educational equity for
the students who our society leaves behind.
Read
Full Story
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| Litigation
and Cost Study News from New Jersey
In
April, children attending New Jersey’s
urban public schools filed legal action
asking the state supreme court to order
the state to restart numerous stalled school
construction projects and make emergency
repairs to school buildings that threaten
students' health and safety. Read
the Press Release from the Education Law
Center
New
Jersey's latest cost study - performed in
2003 and kept from the public until 2006
- is making more headlines, as three national
school finance experts hired by the State
to review the study found numerous serious
problems with the methods and cost determinations
in the report. Read
the Press Release from the Education Law
Center
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Quality
Education Conference Will Feature Advocacy
Organizations
"Building
On Success," the seventh annual Quality
Education Conference, is just three weeks
away! Congressman Charles Rangel,
Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
will be delivering the Keynote Address and
Judge George Bundy Smith,
who heard the Campaign for Fiscal Equity
lawsuit while on the New York Court
of Appeals, will deliver the luncheon address.
Jack Jennings, President
of the Center on Education Policy, will
provide the latest news on the status of
No Child Left Behind.
Speakers
will also include representatives from a
variety of advocacy organizations. Here
are a few of the many organizations that
will be featured at the conference:
Challenge
West Virginia is a statewide
organization of parents, educators and other
West Virginians committed to maintaining
and improving small community schools.
The
North Carolina Justice Center
is an organization dedicated to reducing
and eliminating poverty in North Carolina.
At the conference, we will be hearing about
their Education
and Law Project.
The
Education Justice Collaborative
is a network of community organizations,
researchers, educators, policy and legal
advocates working toward a more equitable
and fully resourced system of public education
in California.
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| Courts
End School Funding Cases
Recent
state supreme court decisions in Nebraska,
Oklahoma and Arizona have ended school funding
adequacy cases in those states before trial,
thus preventing plaintiffs from presenting
their evidence of educational inadequacies.
The Nebraska and Oklahoma courts granted
the defendant states’ motions to dismiss,
while the Arizona court granted the state’s
motion for summary judgment. Read
Full Story
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