Download or read book Students Constitutional Right to a Sound Basic Education written by Jessica R. Wolff and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth in a series of reports that are the culmination of two years of research by the Campaign for Educational Equity, a policy and research center at Teachers College, Columbia University, and significant input from the Safeguarding Sound Basic Education Task Force, a statewide group made up of representatives from New York's leading statewide education associations, parent organizations, school business officials, and advocacy groups. In 2003, New York State's highest court ruled in "Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York" that the state's school-funding system violated students' rights under the education article of the state constitution. It held that New York City's 1.1 million public school students were being denied sufficient funding to provide them the "opportunity for a sound basic education." The court ordered the state to remedy this violation of students' rights. It directed the state government to take three actions: (1) determine the actual cost of providing a sound basic education; (2) reform the system of school funding and managing schools to ensure that all schools have the resources necessary to provide a constitutionally adequate education; and (3) develop "a new&system of accountability to measure whether the reforms actually provide the opportunity for a sound basic education." The "CFE" decision requires the state to ensure that "every school" has adequate resources to meet the needs of its students; therefore, accountability for a sound basic education must entail the assessment, monitoring, and enforcement of school-level resource adequacy. New York's current Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) policy development can help the state move toward compliance with the "CFE" decision and its promise of a meaningful educational opportunity for all New York children, as long as it is undertaken with careful attention to the court's rulings. This report provides analysis and recommendations to help ensure that the state's ESSA planning aligns with requirements of "CFE" and the education article of the state constitution. The report provides additional context for the discussion of resource accountability by describing the legal context and background of "CFE" and situating the discussion within a broader set of policies New York needs to adopt to guarantee students' educational rights and comply with the "CFE" decision. The report describes the contemporary education-accountability context under ESSA, details recommendations for a constitutional education-accountability system to guarantee adequate resources in every New York school, and highlights data-collection and accountability-system precedents from several other states that New York could adapt to satisfy its unique sound-basic-education accountability needs. [For Part 1, see "A Roadmap to Constitutional Compliance Ten Years after 'CFE v. State'" (ED573134). For Part 2, see "Filling the Regulatory Gaps" (ED573133). For Part 3, see "Utilizing a Constitutional Cost Methodology" (ED573135).].
Download or read book Students Constitutional Right to a Sound Basic Education written by Michael A. Rebell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed since New York's highest court ruled in the landmark school-funding and educational-rights case, "Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) v. State of New York," that the state was violating students' constitutional right to the "opportunity for a sound basic education" and ordered significant reforms of the state's education financing and accountability systems. Yet, today, hundreds of thousands of New York students, mostly children living in poverty and children of color, still lack full access to the fundamental learning opportunities to which they are entitled under the law. As a result, students leave high school without knowledge and skills that would ready them for competitive employment and help them, as citizens of a democracy, to engage effectively with the civic issues in their communities and in the broader society. New York State needs stronger policies both to remedy present-day violations of students' rights and to safeguard those rights in the future. Implementation of the "CFE" decision is critical to realizing the state's core equal-opportunity values. This report is the first in a series of reports that are the culmination of two years of research by the Campaign for Educational Equity, a policy and research center at Teachers College, Columbia University, and significant input from the Safeguarding Sound Basic Education Task Force, a statewide group made up of representatives from New York's leading statewide education associations, parent organizations, school business officials, and advocacy groups. This report lays out a roadmap to guide state policymakers, the Regents, and the state education department in undertaking the policy reforms needed to guarantee all students the opportunity for a sound basic education. States are called to take the following actions: (1) Define the essential elements of "the opportunity for a sound basic education"; (2) Conduct regular cost studies using a fair, up-to-date methodology that is based on constitutional resource requirements; (3) Reduce barriers to effective spending for essential educational resources to maximize cost effectiveness while safeguarding students' constitutional rights; (4) Revise New York State school-funding formulas and district-funding-distribution rules to guarantee all schools sufficient resources; and (5) Create state and local accountability mechanisms to monitor the provision of the essential resources of a sound basic education. The following is appended: Safeguarding Sound Basic Education Task Force. [For Part 2, see "Filling the Regulatory Gaps" (ED573133). For Part 3, see "Utilizing a Constitutional Cost Methodology" (ED573135). For Part 4, see "Ensuring Resource Accountability" (ED573136).].
Download or read book Students Constitutional Right to a Sound Basic Education written by Michael A. Rebell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third in a series of reports that are the culmination of two years of research by the Campaign for Educational Equity, a policy and research center at Teachers College, Columbia University, and significant input from the Safeguarding Sound Basic Education Task Force, a statewide group made up of representatives from New York's leading statewide education associations, parent organizations, school business officials, and advocacy groups. In the landmark school-funding and educational-rights case "Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) v. State of New York," the New York Court of Appeals held that New York City's 1.1 million public school students were being denied sufficient funding to provide them "the opportunity for a sound basic education," their right under the education article of the New York State constitution. The court ordered the state to remedy this violation of students' rights. Specifically, the court ruled that the state must (1) determine the actual cost of providing a sound basic education; (2) reform the current funding and management structures to ensure that all schools have the resources they need to provide a constitutionally adequate education; and (3) develop "a new&system of accountability to measure whether the reforms actually provide the opportunity for a sound basic education." Following the "CFE" rulings, the findings of a cost study undertaken by the state education department formed the basis for the foundation formula adopted by the legislature to implement the decision. The constitutional cost methodology described in this report (1) systematically applies constitutional standards, relevant state statutes, regulations, and other legal requirements related to education to the cost-analysis enterprise; (2) incorporates into the analysis evidence of resources and practices that have proved effective; and (3) is overseen by a permanent commission composed of policymakers, educators, and researchers that undertakes systematic cost-effectiveness analyses and recommends necessary revisions to the state's cost analyses every two years. The following is appended: Example of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. [For Part 1, see "A Roadmap to Constitutional Compliance Ten Years after 'CFE v. State'" (ED573134). For Part 2, see "Filling the Regulatory Gaps" (ED573133). For Part 4, see "Ensuring Resource Accountability" (ED573136).].
Download or read book Students Constitutional Right to a Sound Basic Education written by Michael A. Rebell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a series of reports that are the culmination of two years of research by the Campaign for Educational Equity, a policy and research center at Teachers College, Columbia University, and significant input from the Safeguarding Sound Basic Education Task Force, a statewide group made up of representatives from New York's leading statewide education associations, parent organizations, school business officials, and advocacy groups. In 2003, the New York State Court of Appeals held in "Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) v. State of New York" that the state constitution requires New York to provide all of its students "a meaningful high school education" that will prepare them to "function productively as civic participants capable of voting [or] serving on a jury" and "to obtain 'competitive employment.'" Past research by the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College uncovered gaps in the current laws and regulations that leave students' educational rights unprotected. To guarantee that students in schools with high levels of poverty receive adequate, appropriate, and equitable resources, the Board of Regents needs to initiate a thorough review of all of the existing regulations and spell out what level of service is necessary to meet constitutional requirements. This specificity will assist school districts in making policy decisions in difficult economic times and ensure that students' rights are upheld at all times. The recommendations set forth in this report are intended to serve as examples for such an enterprise. This report highlights gaps and needed revisions in five of the areas of essential resources that the courts emphasized in "CFE" (curricula, instructional materials, personnel, class sizes, and resources for students with extraordinary needs). They include the following: (1) gaps in requirements for high school course offerings; (2) gaps in requirements for preparation for civic participation; (3) gaps in requirements for access to instructional materials; (4) gaps in requirements for sufficient numbers of qualified personnel; (5) gaps in requirements on class sizes; and (6) gaps in requirements for resources for students with disabilities. [For Part 1, see "A Roadmap to Constitutional Compliance Ten Years after 'CFE v. State'" (ED573134). For Part 3, see "Utilizing a Constitutional Cost Methodology" (ED573135). For Part 4, see "Ensuring Resource Accountability" (ED573136).].
Download or read book A Federal Right to Education written by Kimberly Jenkins Robinson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate funding for schools. Given the limitations of state school funding litigation, education reformers continue to seek new avenues to remedy inequitable disparities in educational opportunity and achievement, including recently returning to federal court. This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee. A Federal Right to Education provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child, regardless of race, class, language proficiency, or neighborhood.
Download or read book Essential Resources written by Michael A. Rebell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In absence of an existing framework to assess the state's compliance with the court order in "Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) v. State of New York," which guarantees all students the right to an adequate education, the Campaign's first report creates an operational definition for sound basic education. Drawing on relevant state statutes, regulations and judiciary requirements, "Essential Resources" focuses on eight specific areas to which students are constitutionally entitled, including: (1) qualified teachers, principals, and other personnel; (2) suitable, up-to-date curricula; (3) an expanded platform of services for at-risk students; (4) adequate resources for students with extraordinary needs; (5) class size/instructional groupings; (6) instrumentalities of learning; (7) safe and orderly environment; and (8) adequate and accessible facilities. [This report was written with assistance from Jessica R. Wolff and Joseph R. Rogers, Jr. For the companion report, "Deficient Resources: An Analysis of the Availability of Basic Educational Resources in High Needs Schools in Eight New York State School Districts," see ED573105.].
Download or read book Achieving High Educational Standards for All written by Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and published by . This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council, with help from the US Department of Education, held the Millennium Convention in Washington, DC in September 2000. It gathered educators, researchers, and policy makers at the national, state, and local levels to assess success and failure in educating minority and disadvantaged students since the Brown vs, Board of Education decision nearly a half century before, report on research into the causes of the successes and failures, and review strategies and practices that hold promise for continuing improvements. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Courts and Kids written by Michael A. Rebell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in Brown v. Board of Education. Courts and Kids is the first detailed analysis of why the state courts have taken on this active role and how successful their efforts have been. Since 1973, litigants have challenged the constitutionality of education finance systems in forty-five states on the grounds that they deprive many poor and minority students of adequate access to a sound education. While the plaintiffs have won in the majority of these cases, the decisions are often branded “judicial activism”—a stigma that has reduced their impact. To counter the charge, Michael A. Rebell persuasively defends the courts’ authority and responsibility to pursue the goal of educational equity. He envisions their ideal role as supervisory, and in Courts and Kids he offers innovative recommendations on how the courts can collaborate with the executive and legislative branches to create a truly democratic educational system.
Download or read book Committee for Educational Rights V Edgar written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At the Schoolhouse Gate written by Nancy C. Patterson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this edited volume is to shed light upon K-12 perspectives of various school stakeholders in the current unique context of increasing political polarization and heightened teacher and student activism. It is grounded in academic freedom case law and the majority of opinion of the Supreme Court in the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that held that certain forms of expression are protected by the First Amendment. Justice Fortas wrote in the majority opinion that “it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” This volume is timely and instructive, as protections afforded by the First Amendment are a topic of enduring concern, with such freedoms requiring vigilant advocacy and protection from each generation. Paulo Freire stated, “Citizenship is not obtained by chance: It is a construction that, never finished, demands we fight for it” (1998, p. 90). There is confusion and much debate in and outside of schools about how and when these and other rights described in the First Amendment may or may not be limited, and the time is now to clarify the place of such rights in public education. At the Schoolhouse Gate is divided into three sections: Foundations, Case Studies of Rights in Schools, and Choices to Act. The “Foundations” section presents the case law pertaining to the rights of both teachers and students, setting the tone for what presently is permissible and chronicling the ongoing struggle with defining rights and responsibilities in schools. In “Case Studies of Rights in Schools,” various authors examine teacher and student interactions with rights and responsibilities in schools, including the interest of students in participating with their teachers in the democratic experiment of schooling, the promise of student-led conferences, a new teacher’s success with democratizing her classroom, and student views of news and technology. “Choices to Act” includes a portrait of teacher activism during the Oklahoma Walkout, a general counsel’s advice to teachers for availing themselves of their rights, a story of a civic education curriculum generating student agency, and vignettes of two public high school students who took action in their schools and communities.
Download or read book Lessons in Censorship written by Catherine J. Ross and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American public schools often censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Lessons in Censorship brings clarity to a bewildering array of court rulings that define the speech rights of young citizens in the school setting. Catherine J. Ross examines disputes that have erupted in our schools and courts over the civil rights movement, war and peace, rights for LGBTs, abortion, immigration, evangelical proselytizing, and the Confederate flag. She argues that the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational mission and threatens democracy. From the 1940s through the Warren years, the Supreme Court celebrated free expression and emphasized the role of schools in cultivating liberty. But the Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts courts retreated from that vision, curtailing certain categories of student speech in the name of order and authority. Drawing on hundreds of lower court decisions, Ross shows how some judges either misunderstand the law or decline to rein in censorship that is clearly unconstitutional, and she powerfully demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Supreme Court’s initial affirmation of students’ expressive rights. Placing these battles in their social and historical context, Ross introduces us to the young protesters, journalists, and artists at the center of these stories. Lessons in Censorship highlights the troubling and growing tendency of schools to clamp down on off-campus speech such as texting and sexting and reveals how well-intentioned measures to counter verbal bullying and hate speech may impinge on free speech. Throughout, Ross proposes ways to protect free expression without disrupting education.
Download or read book Education Law written by Derek Black and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Derek Black, one of the nation’s foremost experts in education law and policy, and Education Law Association’s 2015 Goldberg Award for Most Significant Publication in Education Law recipient, this third edition casebook develops Education Law through the themes of equality, fairness, and reform. The book focuses on the laws of equal educational opportunity for various disadvantaged student populations, recent reform movements designed to improve education, and the general constitutional rights that extend to all students. New to the Third Edition: Updates on litigation regarding the fundamental right to education, school funding, and their intersection with COVID-19 issues New cases and analysis on the rights of LGBTQ youth, including Bostock v. Clayton County Department of Education’s new regulatory structure for investigating and resolving sexual harassment claims Two new U.S. Supreme Court special education cases defining the meaning of “free and appropriation public education” and the intersection of Rehabilitation Act with the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act New cases on student walkouts and protests New U.S. Supreme Court case, Espinoza v. Montana, on vouchers and the free exercise of religion New analysis and updates on the Every Student Succeeds Act New materials on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down mandatory teacher union fees Professors and student will benefit from: Efficient presentation of cases—to permit more comprehensive inclusion of case law and issues Problems—which can be modified for group exercises, in-class discussion, or out-of-class writing assignments Contextualization and situation of case law in the broader education world—by including edited versions of federal policy guidelines, seminal law review articles, social science studies, and organization reports and studies Careful editing of cases and secondary sources—for ease of reading and comprehension Narrative introductions to every chapter, major section, and case—synthesize and foreshadow the material to improve student comprehension and retention Teaching materials Include: Teacher’s Manual
Download or read book EVERDAY LAW FOR CHILDREN Q written by David J. Herring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Law for Children provides an accessible introduction to laws that affect children and families and the dominant public debates that surround and drive these laws. Using real-world examples, the book exposes the tension between reliance on the private, autonomous family and the public's desire to secure child well-being. A look at some public systems, such as child welfare and juvenile delinquency, shows that an initial public aspiration to assist children and families is often frustrated by a lack of resolve and resources. In other areas, such as education and healthcare, the public shrinks from a commitment to comprehensive child well-being. Everyday Law for Children makes a case for the improvement of public systems by focusing on pragmatic goals related to child well-being. More immediately, it makes a case for zealous advocates for children who can have a dramatic impact on children's everyday lives. Accordingly, the book provides an annotated list of resources and contact information for parents and for service providers who need help addressing specific problems within complex public systems.
Download or read book The Schoolhouse Gate written by Justin Driver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation’s public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students’ constitutional rights and risked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court’s decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students’ rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.
Download or read book Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics written by National Council on Economic Education and published by Council for Economic Educat. This book was released on 1997 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide for curriculum developers, administrators, teachers, and education and economics professors, the standards were developed to provide a framework and benchmarks for the teaching of economics to our nation's children.
Download or read book Judith S Kaye in Her Own Words written by Judith S. Kaye and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography and selected writings by the former Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. In 1983, Judith S. Kaye (1938–2016) became the first woman appointed to the Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court. Ten years later, she became the first woman to be appointed chief judge of the court, and by the time she retired, in 2008, she was the longest-serving chief judge in the court’s history. During her long career, she distinguished herself as a lawyer, jurist, reformer, mentor, and colleague, as well as a wife and mother. Bringing together Kaye’s own autobiography, completed shortly before her death, as well as selected judicial opinions, articles, and speeches, Judith S. Kaye in Her Own Words makes clear why she left such an enduring mark upon the court, the nation, and all who knew her. The first section of the book, Kaye’s memoir, focuses primarily on her years on the Court of Appeals, the inner workings of the court, and the challenges she faced, as chief judge, in managing a court system populated by hundreds of judges and thousands of employees. The second section, a carefully chosen selection of her written opinions (and occasional dissents), reveals how she guided the law in New York State for almost a quarter century with uncommon vision and humanity. Her decisions cover every facet of New York and federal law and have often been quoted and followed nationally. The final section of the book includes selections from her numerous articles and speeches, which cover the field, from common law jurisprudence to commercial law to constitutional analysis, all with an eye to the future and, above all, how the law can best affect the everyday lives of people who come to court—willingly or unwillingly—including, not least, those most in need of the law. BACK FLAP “Judith Kaye was one of the most admired judges in the nation—and a wonderful, real, often funny person as well. This collection captures the full range of the judge and the woman, and it serves as a great reminder of her enduring legacy.” — Jeffrey Toobin “An extraordinary woman, jurist, and leader who had a striking impact on the law and the administration of justice in New York State and beyond. This collection is more than a simple record of a remarkable life. It is a treasure—not only for those of us who knew and admired Judith but for all who may seek to understand and appreciate the profound impact she had on the law, the legal profession, and the administration of justice.” — from the Foreword by Honorable Janet DiFiore
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of U S Education Law written by Kristi L. Bowman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will contunue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
