Comments on: Funding suit’s goal: return to local control http://toped.svefoundation.org/2009/11/11/funding-suits-goal-return-to-local-control/ Analysis, opinion and ruminations on California education policy Mon, 21 May 2012 16:51:21 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Educated Guess Reader http://toped.svefoundation.org/2009/11/11/funding-suits-goal-return-to-local-control/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Educated Guess Reader Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:58:30 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=176#comment-48 The Hoover Institution's Education Next magazine recently did a piece on adequacy lawsuits. Hanushek makes the same claims you mention in your blog post. Michael Rebell responds to those claims, and I find his responses compelling. http://educationnext.org/many-schools-are-still-inadequate-now-what/ Rebell makes the case for adequacy lawsuits and provides evidence that they have helped student achievement. He states: "Recent, more finely tuned data for New Jersey, provided by Peg Goertz, a University of Pennsylvania researcher who has closely followed developments in the Garden State, indicate that from 1999 to 2007 substantial gains were made in the Abbott districts, which were the focus of the judicial remedies. For example, in 4th-grade mathematics, the achievement gaps between the Abbott districts and the rest of the state were cut by more than one-third. Similarly, Kentucky, which was near the bottom of the national rankings in virtually all performance indexes before its 1989 court decision, now ranks above the national averages in reading and science and almost at the national average in math." The Hoover Institution’s Education Next magazine recently did a piece on adequacy lawsuits. Hanushek makes the same claims you mention in your blog post. Michael Rebell responds to those claims, and I find his responses compelling.

http://educationnext.org/many-schools-are-still-inadequate-now-what/

Rebell makes the case for adequacy lawsuits and provides evidence that they have helped student achievement. He states: “Recent, more finely tuned data for New Jersey, provided by Peg Goertz, a University of Pennsylvania researcher who has closely followed developments in the Garden State, indicate that from 1999 to 2007 substantial gains were made in the Abbott districts, which were the focus of the judicial remedies. For example, in 4th-grade mathematics, the achievement gaps between the Abbott districts and the rest of the state were cut by more than one-third. Similarly, Kentucky, which was near the bottom of the national rankings in virtually all performance indexes before its 1989 court decision, now ranks above the national averages in reading and science and almost at the national average in math.”

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]]> By: Mike McMahon http://toped.svefoundation.org/2009/11/11/funding-suits-goal-return-to-local-control/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Mike McMahon Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:14:51 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=176#comment-43 The threat of a lawsuit, a filed lawsuit or a <a href="http://alamedans.com/?p=3539" rel="nofollow">constitutional convention</a> to change how California governs itself are the long term solutions to California K-12 budget woes. While the community colleges and state colleges/universities can cap the services they offered to reduce costs, K-12 school districts do have that luxury. As a result, school districts have begun and will continue to reduce personnel costs by implementing furlough days (i.e. temporary pay cuts), increasing class size (i.e. laying off teachers) and eliminating non-academic core programs (i.e. music, arts, sports etc.). For those communities lucky enough to pass a new or supplemental parcel tax, the cuts will not be as severe. The threat of a lawsuit, a filed lawsuit or a constitutional convention to change how California governs itself are the long term solutions to California K-12 budget woes. While the community colleges and state colleges/universities can cap the services they offered to reduce costs, K-12 school districts do have that luxury. As a result, school districts have begun and will continue to reduce personnel costs by implementing furlough days (i.e. temporary pay cuts), increasing class size (i.e. laying off teachers) and eliminating non-academic core programs (i.e. music, arts, sports etc.). For those communities lucky enough to pass a new or supplemental parcel tax, the cuts will not be as severe.

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