Historic Lawsuit Challenges California’s Unconstitutional Education Finance System
California School Finance, YubaNet.com
May 20, 2010 - A historic
lawsuit was filed today against the State of California requesting
that the current education finance system be declared
unconstitutional and that the state be required to establish a
school finance system that provides all students an equal
opportunity to meet the academic goals set by the State. The case,
Robles-Wong, et al. v. State of California, was filed in the
Superior Court of California in Alameda County. Specifically, the
suit asks the court to compel the State to align its school finance
system-its funding policies and mechanisms-with the educational
program that the State has put in place. To do this, plaintiffs
allege, the State must scrap its existing finance system; do the
work to determine how much it actually costs to fund public
education to meet the state's own program requirements and the
needs of California's school children; and develop and implement a
new finance system consistent with Constitutional
requirements…