April 16, 2019

KANSAS LEGISLATURE INCREASES FUNDING IN RESPONSE TO COURT ORDER

Acting barely a week before a court-imposed deadline, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed into law last Saturday an education bill that will add $90 million per […]
January 31, 2019

FLORIDA SUPREME COURT REJECTS ADEQUACY CLAIMS

In a close 4-3 decision in which the deciding judge joined in the result but not the opinion of his colleagues, the Florida Supreme Court earlier […]
January 31, 2019

ADVOCACY GROUPS IN MARYLAND THREATEN TO RE-OPEN LONG-PENDING ADEQUACY CASE

Since 1994, Bradford v. Maryland State Board of Education, a case that claims students in Baltimore City’s public schools are not receiving the “thorough and efficient” […]
January 31, 2019

NY JUDGE AFFIRMS DISMISSAL OF SMALL CITIES’ EDUCATION ADEQUACY CLAIMS

In 2009, eight small city school districts in upstate New York filed an adequacy challenge to the state’s education funding system. The plaintiffs alleged that the […]