Is there an education funding lawsuit in Wisconsin's future?

[sybylla]

I just read this in Late Breaking. This is something I've been wondering about ever since Walker proposed his budget despair bill and his school slashing budget. Wisconsin makes public education a constitutional right, just like New Jersey.

This has obviously taken a long time to work through the courts and I don't relish having to wait for them to kick Walker in the ass over it. Too many students will suffer waiting for justice. But this might just be where we have to go if the recalls fail.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4782786
Source: NJ.com

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie's deep cuts to state school aid last year left New Jersey's schools unable to provide a "thorough and efficient" education to the state's nearly 1.4 million school children, a Superior Court judge found today.

Judge Peter Doyne, who was appointed as special master in the long-running Abbott vs. Burke school funding case, today issued an opinion that also found the reductions "fell more heavily upon our high risk districts and the children educated within those districts."

"Despite spending levels that meet or exceed virtually every state in the country, and that saw a significant increase in spending levels from 2000 to 2008, our 'at risk' children are now moving further from proficiency," he said.

The Abbott vs. Burke case landed back in court after the Education Law Center, a Newark-based school advocacy group, filed a motion charging that Christie's aid cuts violated the state's school funding formula.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/christies_scho...

[dragonlady]

1. "Budget despair bill"

I love it! :rofl: