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Litigation
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Click here for updates on recent litigation
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Litigation Strategies for Hard Economic
Times
A December 6, 2010, Stateline.org
article on a new Kansas lawsuit
challenging the state’s recent budget
cuts recognizes that Kansas is just
one of a number of states where this scenario
is playing out. More lawsuits are likely
to be filed in the months ahead, as legislatures--confronted
with yet another year of deep budget cuts--
opt to scale back education spending.
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Litigation Round-Up
California, Indiana, Kansas,
New Jersey, South Dakota, and Washington
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Full Story |
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Studies Show Positive Impact
of CFE Funding
A retrospective on the Klein
years—which might also be called the
post-CFE years—was recently provided
at a conference convened on November 20,
2010 by American Institutes for Research
to report on the results of the “New
York City Education Reform Retrospective
Project” funded by the Gates, Carnegie,
Dell and Robertson Foundations. The conference
makes it clear that one of the main driving
forces behind many of the positive changes
in the city’s schools has been the
availability of sufficient funds that allowed
the system to innovate and improve.
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William J. Mathis: Lessons from the PISA
Scores
For the twenty-seventh year, government
officials have yet again been surprised,
shocked and dismayed over the latest international
test score rankings. Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan said “We have to see this
as a very serious wake-up call.” Former
Reagan education official Checker Finn reported
that he was “kind of stunned”
by the results of the Program for International
Student Achievement (PISA) results. In hyperbolic
overdrive, he compared the results to Pearl
Harbor and sputnik.
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