Other States
AMICI URGE TEXAS SUPREME COURT TO AFFIRM STATE'S SCHOOL FUNDING IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Published on: August 13, 2015
ELC joined Texas organizations to file a friend of the court brief in the Texas Supreme Court in support of the state's economically disadvantaged and English Language Learner students.
TENTH CIRCUIT BRUSHES ASIDE WEALTHY-PARENT ATTACK ON FAIR SCHOOL FUNDING
Published on: June 23, 2015
The federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver dismissed all but one claim in a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs from wealthy Kansas school districts concerning the state's school finance system.
PLAINTIFFS ALLEGE SCHOOL FUNDING SYSTEM VIOLATES STATE CONSTITUTION
Published on: March 25, 2015
On March 24, seven county school districts filed a lawsuit in state court alleging that the Tennessee school funding system violates the the State Constitution's education clause, its equal protection provisions, and its unfunded mandates provision.
PENNSYLVANIA GROUPS URGE COURT TO HEAR SCHOOL FUNDING CASE
Published on: February 25, 2015
Statewide groups concerned with the growing education gap for PA schoolchildren are urging the Commonwealth Court to hear a pending challenge to the severe lack of resources and funding of the state’s public schools.
STATE SUED FOR DEFYING VOTERS' PROMISE TO COLORADO'S KIDS
Published on: June 29, 2014
Colorado families, teachers, and districts sue to enforce Amendment 23’s constitutional requirement for support for education in good times and bad.
State admits violating the education rights of Philadelphia school children
Published on: June 20, 2014
Read ELC Executive Director David Sciarra's op ed that appeared on the website of WHYY, Newsworks.org.