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Whitney, Terry N.; Verstegen, Deborah A. – State Legislative Report, 1997
In 1997, an active year for school-finance legislation, states responded in a variety of ways to court decisions. This report provides an overview of school-finance legislation for that year. Historically, school-finance suits have focused on the equity and adequacy of state funding, and the decisions handed down in 1997, for the most part,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Whitney, Terry; Hightower, Amy – State Legislative Report, 1992
State litigation involving unconstitutional school financing systems are described in this document, which focuses on efforts in Texas to reform the financing of public education. Since its school finance system was declared unconstitutional in 1987, two subsequent proposals have been struck down by the Texas Supreme Court for the following…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Download full textFiscal Notes, 1990
In the 1989 "Edgewood vs. Kirby" decision, the Supreme Court of Texas ordered the Legislature to correct the inequality in funding between the state's richest and poorest school districts. In response to the court's order, the Legislature recently enacted Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) intended to provide Texas' school districts with equal access…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Educational Assessment, Educational Equity (Finance)
