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Schoolhouses, Courthouses, And Statehouses: Educational Finance, Constitutional Structure, And The Separation Of Powers Doctrine, Michael Heise
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, And Statehouses: Educational Finance, Constitutional Structure, And The Separation Of Powers Doctrine, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
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The Courts, Educational Policy, And Unintended Consequences, Michael Heise
The Courts, Educational Policy, And Unintended Consequences, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
Recent school finance litigation illustrates yet again how law can generate unintended policy consequences. Seeking to improve student achievement and school accountability, more states now turn to educational standards and assessments. At the same time, a multi-decade school finance litigation effort develops and changes its theoretical base. Recently, educational standards and school finance litigation converged in a way that enables school districts to gain financially from their inability to meet desired achievement levels. Specifically, courts increasingly allow litigants and lawsuits to transform standards and assessments into constitutional entitlements to additional resources. As a consequence, increased legal and financial exposure for …
No Lawsuit Left Behind, Michael Heise
Litigated Learning, Law's Limits, And Urban School Reform Challenges, Michael Heise
Litigated Learning, Law's Limits, And Urban School Reform Challenges, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
This Article assesses the likely efficacy of litigation efforts seeking to enhance equal educational opportunity by improving student academic achievement in the nation's urban public schools. Past education reform litigation efforts focusing on school desegregation and finance met with mixed success. Current litigation efforts seeking to improve student academic achievement promise to be even less successful because student academic achievement involves variables and activities located further from the reach of litigation than such variables as a school's racial composition and per pupil spending levels. Moreover, efforts to improve student achievement in the nation's urban public schools--especially high poverty schools--face additional …
The Rights Of Disabled Students, Derek W. Black, Robert A. Garda Jr., John E. Taylor, Emily Gold Waldman
The Rights Of Disabled Students, Derek W. Black, Robert A. Garda Jr., John E. Taylor, Emily Gold Waldman
Robert A. Garda
Education Law: Equality, Fairness, and Reform situates case law in the broader education world by including edited versions of federal policy guidance, seminal law review articles, social science studies, and policy reports. It offers comprehensive coverage of education law while also focusing specifically on equality and civil rights issues. It includes individual chapters on each major area of inequality: race, poverty, gender, disability, homelessness, and language status. Those chapters are followed by a structured approach to the complex first amendment questions, dividing the first amendment into three different chapters and addressing, in order, freedom of expression and thought, religion in …
White Paper: Projected Savings From School Reform, Jeff Abbott
White Paper: Projected Savings From School Reform, Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
This paper explores possible school district savings from deregulation, de-politicization, and consolidation of school districts in Delaware County, Indiana. The author projected a 4.5 million dollar savings by the Indiana legislature changing the school districts' governance structures in Delaware County, Indiana.
Bennett Plan Aims To Fast-Forward Education Gains, Jeff Abbott
Bennett Plan Aims To Fast-Forward Education Gains, Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
This is an op ed article appearing in the Indiana Policy Review 25 newspaper publisher network throughout Indiana. It explains the benefits of Indiana's Race to the Top proposal.
Shifting Money Into The Classroom, Jeff Abbott
Shifting Money Into The Classroom, Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
The author argues that by adopting the freedom school model of public school governance, which de-regulates and de-politicizes public schools, substantial tax savings will occur.
Can Our Community “Afford” This Bond Issue For Our School? Proposed Factors For Determining Affordability Of School Building Projects, Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
This paper explores the literature of whether a community can afford a public school bond issue. This paper sets forth recommended criteria to determine community affordability of local bond issues.