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| Campaign Initiates New Project to Safeguard Students' Constitutional Rights in Hard Economic Times
Seeking to protect students’ rights to a sound basic education in a time of diminished state resources, the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University is embarking on a new project that will document the impact of state funding cutbacks, develop a concrete, operational definition of the resources, supports and conditions that are needed to provide all students a meaningful opportunity for a sound basic education, and then determine the actual cost of providing that opportunity to all students in New York State in a cost effective and cost efficient manner.
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| Legal Updates
California Plaintiffs Pursue Innovative Equal Protection Claim; Rhode Island Plaintiffs Attack New Funding Formula
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| Michigan Law Review Sets Up “Battle of the Education Heavy-Weights” in Book Review of Courts & Kids and Schoolhouses, Courthouses and Statehouses
Referring to two major books that take opposing positions on the role of the courts in education adequacy decisions, Stanford Law Professor William S. Koski sets up his analysis of the two texts as “a bout between contenders for the school-finance-reform-litigation heavyweight championship.” [see full review here] (He notes, however, that the authors did not write their books with the intent of engaging one another in such a debate). The two works he considers are Courts & Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity Through the State Courts, by Michael A. Rebell, Executive Director of the Campaign for Eduational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University and Schoolhouses, Courthouses and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America’s Public Schools by Eric A. Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and Alfred A. Lindseth, counsel at the Atlanta-based law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP.
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National Equity and Excellence Commission Update
The U.S. Department of Education’s newly-established Equity and Excellence Commission has organized a set of working groups and begun to convene a series of town meetings and “community conversations” across the country. At their initial plenary meeting in Washington last February, the commission created four work groups that are now focusing on identifying the major equity problems, developing a “vision” of how to overcome them, and focusing on specific programmatic and funding recommendations to deal with them.
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