Higher Education Standards and Less Education Resources = Lawsuit
This needs to happen where the Federal and State governments are demanding more than the state coffers, cities, school districts or teachers can provide.
Dora
“Plaintiffs do not argue that resources equal student achievement. There is no guarantee. But not funding schools guarantees failure.”
Kenzo Kawanabe, plaintiffs’ attorney in closing.
By Lisa Weil, Policy Director, Great Education Colorado.
This political cartoon sums up the Lobato case: the state is failing its constitutional duty to provide a “thorough and uniform system of free public schools” because there is no rational connection between the standards and