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Litigation
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Proceedings
from the 8th Annual Quality Education Conference
2008 Quality Education Conference Sets New
Horizons for the Adequacy Movement
Brown v. Board of Education
was a “first down” not a “touch
down” in educational adequacy, insisted
Dr. John Jackson, President of the Schott
Foundation in Public Education” as
he initiated the 2008 Quality Education
Conference: Exploring New Horizons for Equal
Educational Opportunity. Addressing over
120 litigators, policy-makers, and community
organizers from 29 states and the District
of Columbia, Jackson, in his keynote speech,
proclaimed to the audience that “education
reform is in our hands.” Read
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Sustaining Success: The Court’s Role
in Education Adequacy
Despite
a number of recent publications criticizing
the role of the courts in education adequacy
litigations, Michael A. Rebell, Executive
Director of the National ACCESS Network,
assured the audience of the 2008 Quality
Education Conference that the adequacy movement
is alive and well. Plaintiffs have, in fact,
prevailed in over 70% of the basic liability
decisions, according to Rebell, and the
increased critical scrutiny is an indication
that the impact of these victories is of
growing significance. Rebell stressed that
most of the recent plaintiffs’ losses
which are cited by the critics, occurred
at the trial level. This is consistent with
the historical pattern that major new constitutional
pronouncements originate with the highest
state courts. Read
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The Special Role of the Courts
in the Education Adequacy Movement
“How
does an education advocate persuade a state
Supreme Court to get into the Education
Business?” was one of the questions
candidly confronted by Hon. John. M. Greaney,
Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial
Court, at the 2008 Quality Education Conference.
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Righting Rodriguez: Implications for Advancing
a Federal Constitutional Right to Education
The
implications of expanded federal involvement
in education was the subject of “Righting
Rodriguez: Implications for Advancing a
Federal Constitutional Right to Education.”
The session took place on the second day
of the 2008 Annual Quality Education Conference.
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Pollster Cornell Belcher’s Session
at the 8th Annual Quality Education Conference
Presidential
pollster Cornell Belcher was a featured
speaker at the 8th Annual Quality Education
Conference in Washington, DC. Belcher, who
works for Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama and for the Democratic National
Committee, reported the results of a new
national poll—focusing on the significance
of education as a political issue in America.
The broad conclusion drawn from Belcher’s
presentation was that education is a high
priority issue for most Americans: it is
a “shared value” which is largely
“recession-proof”—remaining
important even when the economy is down.
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