Post by wyane on Nov 25, 2006 22:21:51 GMT -5
stateght of the Boro schools current dismal path of Academic struggle.....
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CRAWFORD v. DAVY:
DEMANDING IMMEDIATE AND MEANINGFUL
REMEDIES FOR CHILDREN DEPRIVED
OF A CONSTITUTIONALLY ADEQUATE EDUCATION
Summary
Crawford v. Davy is a class action lawsuit, filed on July 13, 2006, seeking for the first time meaningful and immediate relief for a state’s failures to provide essential basic education for many of its children. Like most state constitutions, New Jersey’s constitution guarantees a particular standard of public education—specifically, a “thorough and efficient” education. For 33 years, New Jersey courts have ordered massive funding increases and new programs to redress educational inequities in impoverished school districts. Unfortunately, thousands of children, both in and out of districts that received these court-ordered remedies, remain mired in abysmally poor-performing schools, in which fewer than half of the children demonstrate minimal proficiency in basic educational skills as determined by the state itself.
The lawsuit demands two remedies that will provide immediate relief for children in failing schools: elimination of compulsory attendance zones that prevent children from attending better-performing public schools outside of their districts, and provision to the students’ families their children’s pro rata share of state and local educational funding so they may attend a functioning public or private school. Such remedies will ensure that students can escape failing schools and that public schools will be held accountable for their nonperformance.
Crawford is a national test case. Nearly four million children are in failing public schools throughout the United States. By establishing a state constitutional precedent that children are entitled to leave failing schools with the share of educational resources devoted to their education, this case will provide hope for a brighter educational future for children all across the nation.
Case Description
For more than 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education,1 Americans have struggled to make good on the promise of equal educational opportunities. While we have much progress to celebrate since that milestone decision, millions of American schoolchildren, disproportionately Black and Latino, are deprived of the basic educational opportunities that are their constitutional right and essential to their future. The U.S. Department of Education reports that nearly four million children attend public schools that are chronically failing—that is, schools that have
1 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
"...no child should be forced to remain in a failing public school for one minute, much less one year or an educational lifetime. Such a remedy, which allows for meaningful school choice for children trapped in failing schools, is the only remedy that allows children to escape failing schools immediately, and that holds schools accountable for their performance."
freeholdvoice.proboards46.com/index.cgi?board=schools&action=post
CRAWFORD v. DAVY:
DEMANDING IMMEDIATE AND MEANINGFUL
REMEDIES FOR CHILDREN DEPRIVED
OF A CONSTITUTIONALLY ADEQUATE EDUCATION
Summary
Crawford v. Davy is a class action lawsuit, filed on July 13, 2006, seeking for the first time meaningful and immediate relief for a state’s failures to provide essential basic education for many of its children. Like most state constitutions, New Jersey’s constitution guarantees a particular standard of public education—specifically, a “thorough and efficient” education. For 33 years, New Jersey courts have ordered massive funding increases and new programs to redress educational inequities in impoverished school districts. Unfortunately, thousands of children, both in and out of districts that received these court-ordered remedies, remain mired in abysmally poor-performing schools, in which fewer than half of the children demonstrate minimal proficiency in basic educational skills as determined by the state itself.
The lawsuit demands two remedies that will provide immediate relief for children in failing schools: elimination of compulsory attendance zones that prevent children from attending better-performing public schools outside of their districts, and provision to the students’ families their children’s pro rata share of state and local educational funding so they may attend a functioning public or private school. Such remedies will ensure that students can escape failing schools and that public schools will be held accountable for their nonperformance.
Crawford is a national test case. Nearly four million children are in failing public schools throughout the United States. By establishing a state constitutional precedent that children are entitled to leave failing schools with the share of educational resources devoted to their education, this case will provide hope for a brighter educational future for children all across the nation.
Case Description
For more than 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education,1 Americans have struggled to make good on the promise of equal educational opportunities. While we have much progress to celebrate since that milestone decision, millions of American schoolchildren, disproportionately Black and Latino, are deprived of the basic educational opportunities that are their constitutional right and essential to their future. The U.S. Department of Education reports that nearly four million children attend public schools that are chronically failing—that is, schools that have
1 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
"...no child should be forced to remain in a failing public school for one minute, much less one year or an educational lifetime. Such a remedy, which allows for meaningful school choice for children trapped in failing schools, is the only remedy that allows children to escape failing schools immediately, and that holds schools accountable for their performance."