"""Adequacy lawsuits"" have emerged as an alternative strategy in
pursuit of improved public education in America. Plaintiffs allege
insufficient resources to provide students with the quality of
education promised in their state's constitution, hoping the courts
will step in and order the state to increase its level of aid.
Since 1980, 45 of the 50 states have faced such suits. How
pervasive-and effective-is this trend? What are its ramifications,
at the school district level and on a broader scope? This important
new book addresses these questions. The contributors consider the
legal theory behind adequacy lawsuits, examining how the education
clauses in state constitutions have been reinterpreted. According
to James Guthrie and Matthew Springer, this trend has more fully
politicized the process of cost modeling in school finance.
Frederick Hess looks at the politics of adequacy implementation.
Research by Christopher Berry of Harvard finds that the most
significant result of the movement has not resulted in
broad-ranging changes in school funding. How the No Child Left
Behind Act and adequacy lawsuits impact one another is an
especially interesting question, as addressed by Andrew Rudalevige
and Michael Heise. This is the most comprehensive analysis to date
of the adequacy lawsuit strategy, a topic of increasing importance
in a controversial area of public policy that touches virtually all
Americans. It will be of interest to readers engaged in education
policy discussions and those concerned about the power of the
courts to make policy rather than simply to enforce it. "
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