Amicus Briefs

Resources

• Committee for Educational Equality v. State of Missouri (Mo.) [PDF 168,241kb]
  Finance: Adequacy of state funding of schools under Missouri constitution; how other state courts have evaluated funding adequacy claims under state constitutions. Brief filed by Missouri School Boards’ Association, prepared by Education Justice at Education Law Center, and also joined by the Rural Schools and Community Trust. Filed 1/26/2009.
  
• Abbeville County School District v. South Carolina (S.C.) [PDF 160,372kb]
  Finance: How state courts have evaluated funding adequacy claims under state constitutions.
  
• Maryland State Board of Education v. Bradford (Md. Ct. of Appls.) [PDF 7,644,575kb]
  Finance: justiciability of educational adequacy challenge – Separation of Powers
  
• DeRolph v. State (U.S. Sup. Ct.) [PDF 110,194kb]
  School Finance: state constitutional right to public education - availability of remedy - jurisdiction
  
• Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State (N.Y. Ct. of Appls.) [PDF 49,966kb]
  School finance: adequacy of state's system of funding public education.