The five month trial that will determine whether the state
is providing students in high poverty districts with a suitable education is
coming to a close this week.
On Monday lawyers representing the coalition
of students, parents, school boards, teachers unions and mayors that are
suing the state summed up their case in closing arguments.
Plaintiffs say system does not give students
in poorer areas an equal education
By JOSEPH DE AVILA Jan. 11, 2016
A decade old lawsuit that could shake up how Connecticut pays for its
public schools heads to trial Tuesday in a case that will address issues
including whether the state constitution grants children the right to
preschool.
A coalition made up of cities, local school boards and more
than three dozen other plaintiffs, including parents and their children, sued
the state in November 2005, claiming Connecticuts
K 12 school funding system was unconstitutional.
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