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Litigation
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Click here for updates on recent litigation
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Equity Symposium Presents Studies, On-the-Ground
Perspectives on Education Stimulus Impact
Education experts and practitioners
provided a preliminary assessment of the
impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA) on opportunities for students
from poverty backgrounds at “Stimulating
Equity?: The Impact of the Federal Stimulus
Act on Educational Opportunity,” the
Campaign for Educational Equity’s
Fifth Annual Equity Symposium held February
8 and 9 at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Legal Updates: WA, KS and RI
Washington
Court issues strong adequacy ruling. Kansas
plaintiffs challenge constitutionality of
budget cuts; state Supreme Court refuses
to re-open Montoy school finance
litigation. New case filed in Rhode Island.
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Safeguarding the Right to a Sound Basic
Education in Times of Fiscal Constraint
With the nation hunkered
down for what looks to be lengthy bad times,
American public schools, grappling with
the most severe budget cuts in more than
three decades, are reducing educational
services to millions of children.
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Book Review: The Schoolhouse
and the Courthouse
[Schoolhouses, Courthouses,
and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement
Puzzle in America’s Public Schools
and From Schoolhouse to Courthouse:
The Judiciary’s Role in American Education]
are the latest in a recent series of ideologically
charged writings that challenge the legitimacy
of the substantial role the courts have
come to play in educational policy matters
and assert that judicial intervention has
largely been a failure in terms of producing
gains in student achievement.
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