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Litigation
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Click here for updates on recent litigation
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The Role of the Courts: An Editorial Comment
Opponents
of judicial involvement in education finance
cases are again asserting that the tide has
turned against plaintiffs in state court education
adequacy cases, an unjustified claim that
I refuted in a column
last year. At a recent conference sponsored
by the American Enterprise Institute and the
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, John Dinan, a
professor at Wake Forest University, alleged
that “the school finance litigation
movement may have peaked…[because] judges
have increasingly made clear that they are
disinclined to undertake continuing supervision
of school finance policies.” After citing
examples of courts that recently terminated
jurisdiction in education adequacy cases to
support his sweeping conclusion, Dinan acknowledged
that a number of these terminations “can
be attributed to legislative passage of substantial
reforms that courts were prepared to deem
in compliance with prior rulings.” In
other words, the courts ended the cases because
they had achieved successful results!
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Obama and Comprehensive Educational Equity
While on the campaign trail, President-elect
Barack Obama pledged to revise and improve
the quality of education in the United States.
In July 2007, he announced a plan to address
simultaneously the problems of poverty and
education by creating twenty “promise
neighborhoods” based on the model
of the Harlem Children’s Zone. This
announcement was a significant step in advancing
the concept of comprehensive educational
equity, i.e. the notion that to overcome
the achievement gap, the broad needs of
children from poverty backgrounds in areas
like the health, nutrition, and early childhood
education must be met.
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Developments on High Stakes Testing
Twenty-three states currently require
students to pass a set of high school exit
examinations in order to graduate from high
school, according to a recent report
on the status of high school exit exams
from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on
Education Policy (CEP). Since 2002, there
has been a growing trend for these states
to administer these exams in contrast to
the minimum-competency exams many states
used to administer. By 2012, three more
states are expected to transition to high
stakes exit exams. Today, 68% of all high
school students attend school in states
that have these policies, and 75% of students
of color are subject to theses examination
requirements.
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