Dianne Kaplan deVries, the driving force behind the coalition that won a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that the state pay for every child to receive an adequate education, died Sunday from cancer.
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School-funding trial delayed, again
A Superior Court judge on Wednesday grudgingly agreed to delay the the start of a trial to determine whether the state is spending enough to ensure every student a quality education.
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State aiming to hobble school funding lawsuit
Attorneys defending the state against a class-action school-funding lawsuit believe the coalition suing the state should be removed as a plaintiff, effectively diminishing the significance of the case.
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School funding trial delayed indefinitely over emails
The trial that will determine whether the state is spending enough money to provide Connecticut public school children with an adequate education has been put on hold indefinitely. The trial was set back in recent weeks after attorneys discovered 77 email chains from the leader of the coalition suing the state in which she instructed people to delete the emails.
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School funding case may be delayed
The trial that will determine whether the state is spending enough money to provide all public school children in Connecticut with an adequate education will probably be delayed. It had been set to begin on Jan. 6.
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Change of plans: State will not demand evaluations of individual CT teachers
The Office of the Attorney General has reversed course and is no longer asking a judge to “compel” the release of thousands of individual teacher evaluations it wanted for its defense of a school-funding lawsuit.
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Teacher evaluations: State asks court to ‘compel’ districts to turn over assessments
The top lawyers for the state are asking a Superior Court judge to “compel” nine of the state’s lowest-performing school districts to turn over individual teacher evaluations so they can prepare for a trial set to begin this fall over whether the state is properly funding education.
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Trial guaranteed on CT school funding and reforms
A Superior Court judge Thursday rejected the state’s request to throw out a lawsuit charging that Connecticut has failed to provide enough money to its poorest school districts. The decision comes eight years after a group of mayors and teachers’ unions across the state filed the lawsuit alleging chronic underfunding of education and nearly three […]
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Supreme Court clears the way for lawsuit to require state funding to ensure “adequate” public school education
The state Supreme Court ruled today that Connecticut schoolchildren are guaranteed an adequate standard of quality in their public schools — a crucial legal victory for a coalition seeking to force a dramatic increase in state spending on education. It is the most significant ruling on school finance since another lawsuit, Horton vs. Meskill, radically […]