Current Litigation Involving School Finance Issues.

Autor/in	Sparkman, William E.
Institution	National Organization on Legal Problems of Education, Topeka, KS.
Titel	Current Litigation Involving School Finance Issues.
Quelle	(1985), P. (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Court Litigation; Educational Finance; Elementary Secondary Education; Federal Aid; Financial Policy; Fund Raising; Government School Relationship; Legal Problems; Private School Aid; School District Spending; School Funds; School Law; School Support; State Aid; State School District Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; Bildungsfonds; Fiscal policy; Finanzpolitik; Fundraising; Spendensammlung; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Schulförderverein; Staatliches Schulamt
Abstract	This paper contains an overview of selected school finance cases litigated in local, state, and federal courts. The first section contains a review of state school finance cases. Constitutional challenges to states' school finance systems were affirmed by the Connecticut Supreme Court, defeated by the Michigan Court of Appeals, and returned to a lower court by the Supreme Court of New Hampshire; in addition, seven property-poor school districts have filed suit in Texas. School districts in Michigan challenged the state's right to reduce school aid. The next section of the paper examines local fiscal issues including litigation prompted by school board decisions affecting areas such as property tax exemption, disposition of interest earned on school funds, extracurricular program fees, transportation, and school district residency requirements. A federal district ruled in Philadelphia that school districts may file a class action suit against 55 manufacturers to recover the cost of asbestos removal. The third section of the paper addresses controversial issues at the federal level: (1) the authority of the federal government to recover misspent Title I funds; (2) school lunch regulations involving soft drinks; and (3) the government's financial responsibility for the Chicago Board of Education's desegregation plan under the terms of a 1980 consent decree. The fourth section addresses the issue of public financial support for nonpublic schools. (MLF)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01