Latest News and Comment from Education

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Hey Malloy, Wyman and Jepsen - Connecticut children have a Constitutional Right to a quality education! - Wait What?

Hey Malloy, Wyman and Jepsen - Connecticut children have a Constitutional Right to a quality education! - Wait What?:

Hey Malloy, Wyman and Jepsen – Connecticut children have a Constitutional Right to a quality education!


Six years ago the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in the case of CCJEF v. Rell that Connecticut’s State Constitution REQUIRES that all public school students have the fundamental right to “an effective and meaningful (quality, adequate) education, the standard for which is “dynamic” and dependent on the “demands of an evolving world.”
Connecticut’s Supreme Court then sent the case to a trial judge to determine what the State of Connecticut must do to meet that standard.
However, for the past six years Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman, Attorney General George Jepsen and the Malloy administration have fought to derail, destroy or dismiss this incredibly important lawsuit.
Instead of stepping up to fulfill their legal duty to the children of Connecticut, these “Democratic” politicians have devoted a massive amount of taxpayer resources in an immoral attempt to prevent Connecticut’s children (and Connecticut’s local property taxpayers) from having their “day in court.”
Despite Malloy, Wyman and Jepsen’s best efforts, the CCJEF V. RELL trial begins today.  (See CT Newsjunkie Trial on Landmark Education Funding Lawsuit Begins)
As CCJEF explained in a recent press release;
(Hartford, CT)—The landmark CCJEF v. Rell education adequacy and equity 
Hey Malloy, Wyman and Jepsen - Connecticut children have a Constitutional Right to a quality education! - Wait What?: