The system has more gold than Midas.
The problem is how it gets spent.
Just like anybody that goes broke it’s the spending gone crazy that does them in.
If the Colorado legislature had a pair among the lot they would impeach and remove this judge.
Then, give a speech on separation of powers. It would amount to daring the judge to hold them in contempt.
This will destroy the state of Colorado. The Abbott decision enabled total and absolute corruption in the education RFP system in New Jersey that to date has total over $4Billion dollars in outright fraud and almost no prosecutions, all within a 13 years of implementation. Over 10% of the total state level school funding a year was skimmed by crooks, every year, for the last 13 years.
While I don’t like Gov. Christie on many points, he has tackled Abbott corruption head on and is making a good bureaucratic foundation to prevent future looting of the general fund in NJ to this insane NJ Supreme Court decision.
You missed the New Jersey Supreme Court 1994 and 1997 Abbott v. Burke decisions. And 2009 review.
^ Abbott v. Burke, 100 N.J. 269, 495 A.2d 376 (1985) (”Abbott I”).
^ Abbott v. Burke, 119 N.J. 287, 575 A.2d 359 (1990) (”Abbott II”).
^ Abbott v. Burke, 136 N.J. 444, 643 A.2d 575 (1994) (Abbott III); Abbott v. Burke, 149 N.J. 145, 693 A.2d 417 (1997) (Abbott IV).
^ Abbott ex rel. Abbott v. Burke, 199 N.J. 140; 971 A.2d 989 (2009).
See the opposing views in Hanushek, Eric A., and Alfred A. Lindseth. 2009. Schoolhouses, courthouses, and statehouses: Solving the funding-achievement puzzle in America’s public schools. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, and in Goertz, Margaret E., and Michael Weiss. 2007. “Money Order in the Court: The Promise and Pitfalls of Redistributing Educational Dollars through Court Mandates: The Case of New Jersey.” In Annual Meeting of the American Education Finance Association. Baltimore, MD.
http://www.aei.org/article/education/the-effectiveness-of-court-ordered-funding-of-schools/
The obvious remedy is to defend. Eliminate the public schools completely so that they are no longer underfunded they are simply no more.
“Section 2. Establishment and maintenance of public schools.
The general assembly shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment and maintenance of a thorough and uniform system of free public schools throughout the state, wherein all residents of the state, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, may be educated gratuitously. One or more public schools shall be maintained in each school district within the state, at least three months in each year; any school district failing to have such school shall not be entitled to receive any portion of the school fund for that year. “
“at least three months...”
Those were the good ol’ days alright.
How do we recall judges?
Oh I thought we had 3 branches of government...guess we only have 1 judges. The word impeach comes to mind
Instead of battling the liberal judges, they should just change the constitution.
Insert language saying that education funding is solely the responsibility of the counties and schools districts and expressly deny any suggestion that there is equal funding for every student in the state.
Part of the problem is that school districts that are too small to support themselves want Colorado taxpayers to write them a blank check.
Money And School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment
It might not be desegregation this time, but the idea that throwing other people's money at any "disparity" will fix it has been proven completely wrong over and over again.
But the only real goal is to enable teacher's unions to collect more union dues.