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“Sleepless After Seattle? There’s Still Hope for Equal Educational Opportunity:" Access Executive Director Michael Rebell stresses the importance of state court education adequacy cases in promoting educational equity (Education Week, February 13, 2008)

"State Education Advocacy More Important than Ever as US Supreme Court Slams Door on Integration": Access Managing Director Molly A. Hunter's response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Parents v. Seattle and Meredith v. Jefferson County (June 29, 2007)

"In California, “Getting Down to Facts” Requires Gearing Up for Change": Access Managing Director Molly A. Hunter explains why California's education finance study should be a call to action (May 1, 2007)

"Nix Mike's flawed school funding fix": Access Executive Director Michael Rebell criticizes Mayor Bloomberg's plan to alter NYC's school finance system (New York Daily News, January 25, 2007)

“100% Solution” Fails the Test: Access Executive Director Michaell Rebell responds to the Fordham Foundation's "Fund the Child" manifesto (September 15, 2006)

Weighted Student Funding Simplistic and Harmful if Applied Broadly: A memo in response to the Fordham Foundation's "Fund the Child" manifesto (June 26, 2006)

Other Opinion Pieces:

"Slashing the city schools budget is illegal, unfair and unwise": Opinion Article by Michael Rebell (New York Daily News, December 19, 2008)

How Title I "Number Weighting" Hurts High Poverty Small Districts": An analysis by Marty Strange, Policy Director of the Rural School and Community Trust (January 23, 2008)

"Enough Already? School Funding and the Courts": Kevin Carey at Education Sector writes a critical review of Courting Failure, the recent book edited by Eric Hanushek that attacks the quality education movement (April 17, 2007).

Beyond NCLB: A guest editorial by George Wood, Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy (December 19, 2006)


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