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Education Law Center, 2019
In the 2009 "Abbott v. Burke XX" decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court approved the SFRA formula as a replacement for the previously Court-ordered "parity" and "supplemental funding" remedies for the longstanding violation of the constitutional right to a thorough and efficient education of students in 31 urban, or…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Constitutional Law, Student Rights
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Kaplan, Leslie S.; Owings, William A. – Journal of Education Finance, 2013
This article discusses the impact of changing student demographics on financing education and on our national wellbeing. We begin by examining the research of current student demographics and their relationship to learning and education costs. We then calculate a 1% cost factor from the average per-pupil expenditure based on the 2011 "Digest…
Descriptors: Demography, Student Characteristics, Student Diversity, Social Change
Goertz, Margaret E.; Weiss, Michael – Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2009
Education finance policy in New Jersey has been shaped by over 30 years of school finance litigation. Through its decisions in "Robinson v. Cahill" (1973-1976) and "Abbott v. Burke" (1985-2005), the justices of New Jersey's supreme court have defined the state's constitutional guarantee of a "thorough and efficient"…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Court Litigation, Finance Reform, Public Education