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Litigation
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Click here for updates on recent litigation
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Tracking Educational Adequacy in Arkansas:
A New Legislative Approach
The
Arkansas Senate and House Committees on Education
recently released a joint study on education
adequacy implementing a new system of continuing
legislative oversight to ensure that the constitutional
right to an adequate system of education is
provided on a permanent basis to students
in the state. After fifteen years of education
adequacy litigation, the legislative and executive
branches of state government appear to be
seriously committed to working with the courts
to implement long term, stable reforms.
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Adequacy Trial in Alaska: The Remedy Phase
In June, 2007, in a highly unusual decision,
Judge Sharon Gleason of the Superior Court
of Alaska upheld the validity of Alaska’s
education finance system, but nevertheless
ruled that the state was violating the adequacy
clause of the state’s constitution.
Moore v. State, No 3AN-04-9756
Civ. (Superior Court,Anchorage.) Indicating
that accountability is an important part
of adequacy, Judge Gleason found that school
districts, particularly low-performing school
districts, suffered from a lack of sufficient
state oversight. Plaintiffs intend to appeal
the ruling regarding funding since, as Bill
Bjork, president of the National Education
Association-Alaska, stated, “…To
say that money doesn’t matter simply
defies logic.” In an attempt to allow
the state to address the constitutional
violations, Judge Gleason stayed her final
decision—and all appeals—for
one year.
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Two Reports Illuminate Limitations
of NCLB
The majority of state education
departments do not have the fiscal or technical
capacity to aid low-performing schools,
according to a recent study released by
the American Institutes for Research (AIR).
The study focused on five components of
state support that it used as a framework
to determine the low-performing schools’
capacity to improve. These components were,
(1) tools to support the school improvement
process, (2) providers who deliver support,
(3) support activities, (4) funding for
school improvement, and (5) the content
of the improvement themselves. Based on
these components, the study found that sixteen
states have severe capacity limitations,
seventeen have mild capacity limitations,
and sixteen have moderate capacity limitations.
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Equity Symposium on Comprehensive Education
Equity:
Overcoming the Socioeconomic Barriers to
School Success
On
Monday and Tuesday, November 17-18, the
Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers
College, Columbia University, will host
its fourth annual Equity Symposium, “Comprehensive
Education Equity: Overcoming the Socioeconomic
Barriers to School Success.”
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