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Seeing silver lining in Robles-Wong
- 01-24-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
A Superior Court ruling narrowing the scope of two suits challenging the state’s system of funding education is distressing to those favoring more money for California schools. But while disappointed, lawyers for the cases say they’re not despondent – or ready to give in. Three factors are giving them hope, as they plot strategy over the next few weeks: Serrano, Proposition 8, and Judge Steven Brick’s ambiguity. Serrano. That’s the name of the landmark court case that found funding schools largely through property taxes to be unconstitutional because of huge revenue disparities it created among districts. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven Brick cited the case in his ruling this month, though in ways in which attorneys for the two funding cases – Robles-Wong v California and Campaign for Quality Education v California – disagreed. But the point is that the trial judge in the original Serrano lawsuit 35 years ago threw that case out, too. The state Supreme Court overturned the ruling, let the case move forward, and the rest is history. (more…)
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