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20 lis 2006 · In 1993, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity filed suit, claiming that the underfunding of New York City schools by the current system denies students their constitutionally protected right to quality education.
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) was a not-for-profit advocacy organization that sought to protect and promote the constitutional right to a sound basic education for all public school students in the State of New York.Under the leadership of Michael A. Rebell, the organization filed and won the landmark "CFE v.State of New York" lawsuit, which successfully argued that the state's school ...
In this third appeal by plaintiffs Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. (CFE), et al., we address the cost of providing children in New York City's public schools with a sound basic education.
In the CFE v. State of New York case, Justice Leland DeGrasse's ruling in January 2001 signaled that a remedy for the New York school funding system must go beyond the simple equity debates of the past and instead provide adequate resources and capacity to support the instructional conditions necessary to guar-antee all students a sound basic ...
In the Court of Appeals' most recent decision concerning the Constitution's Education [*9]Article, New York Civ. Liberties Union v State of New York (4 NY3d 175 [2005]), the plaintiffs challenged the failure of the State Commissioner of Education to take affirmative action to determine the causes of failure in their schools and rectify them by ...
e.g. Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v State of New York, 86 NY2d 307, 314 [1995] [noting application of different tests to equal protection challenges and a claim that legislation
9 sty 2001 · Summary. In 1993, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, as well as several students and their parents, filed a complaint asserting that New York State’s educational financing scheme, in violation of the state Constitution, fails to provide public school students in New York City, an opportunity to obtain a sound basic education.
