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Costing
Out
Background Information and Fact Sheets
of Cost Studies Across the U.S.
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“Equal Educational Opportunity: What
Now?” 3rd Annual Equity Symposium
On November 12 and 13, 2007
academics, advocates, educators, students,
lawyers, and policy-makers convened for
the Campaign for Educational Equity’s
3rd annual symposium, “Equal Educational
Opportunity: What Now? Reassessing the Role
of the Courts, the Law and School Policies
after Seattle and CFE,”
(Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of
New York). Read
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Diversity, Integration and the Supreme Court’s
Seattle Ruling
Opening
the Campaign for Educational Equity’s
November symposium, “Equal Educational
Opportunity: What Now?", a distinguished
panel of experienced experts analyzed the
recent Seattle and Jefferson
County, Kentucky decision by the U.S.
Supreme Court, which struck down voluntary
integration plans. Ted Shaw, President and
Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund urged the audience
to address school integration in an honest
way and said that “there is no room
for depression or despair.” He advocated
making racially segregated education as
equal and high quality as possible. “No
one can be safe with racially dual school
systems,” said Shaw. He concluded
that non-race conscious integration is hypocritical
and that we need policies that are race
and color conscious because although intertwined,
class and race are not the same. Read
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Success: Better Education through
Litigation!
Education
adequacy litigations have won better educational
opportunities in several states, including
Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts
and New Jersey. Case studies from these
states – framed around Professor Michael
Rebell’s definition of success in
“Ensuring Successful Remedies in Education
Adequacy Litigations” – comprised
a session on “Assessing Success in
Education Adequacy Litigations: A View from
the States” at the Campaign for Educational
Equity’s 3rd Annual Symposium. Read
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Funding Needed to Boost English Language
Learners Over State Exit Exam Hurdle
As
Arizona awaits the decision of the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals in the English
language learner (ELL) case, Flores
v. State, the Center on Education Policy
(CEP) published "Caught in the Middle:
Arizona’s English Language Learners
and the High School Exit Exam." The
state has asked the federal appeals court
to overturn the trial court's ruling last
March, finding that changes made to Arizona's
English Language Learner programs and funding
don't satisfy a 1974 federal statute requiring
equal educational opportunities for English-learning
students. CEP president Jack Jennings says
“the consequences are dire”
with regards to students failing the exit
exams and insists that “the problem
is not going away." Read
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Pennsylvania Study Combines Methodologies
and Tries to Cost Out “100 Percent
Proficiency”
Pennsylvania
needs to increase education spending by
$4.61 billion or 26.8 percent per year in
order to meet performance standards, according
to the study “Costing Out the Resources
Needed to Meet Pennsylvania’s Public
Education Goals” released in November
2007. In addition, the study showed that
spending is often lowest in the districts
with the most need. According to the authors,
the poorest 20 percent of school districts
and Philadelphia need to raise spending
by 34.9 and 50 percent respectively.
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