Opportunity to moderate and important conversation that impacts everyone and that is School Finance. Talk about the lot and the opportunity and the role ahead. I spoke with four attorneys today each person will have an opportunity to speak 10 minutes and then a moderated conversation then we will open to the audience. Let me put into context why this is important. The Supreme Court made an important ruling on finance and since then we have had a number of cases that the state level to make sure those set an underperforming schools and also money to pay for it. Does money matter . I want to say yes does matter what and and to spend millions of dollars of education so we will figure out what this means with new questions of the role of the federal government sold the first person to have an opportunity to talk about this subject is professor of law and has practiced in of private sector and a graduate of Harvard Law School and has gotten a lot of publicity we will invite the professor to
And so that sets of children to not have the resources they need to pass the benchmarks for proficiencies that are established in state standards so that is another challenge. There is low funding we can talk about about you and day so even if it is low funding, not providing great sources. And finally insufficient oversight of state funding, what does that mean . We dont have enough oversight of the system to make sure the money we are putting in is being spent efficiently and that is important as well, not just we have additional money for low income children but are we spending that money wisely to get the results we need. A number of weaknesses in the School Funding system, how my argument, the rodriguez case, it was a case in 1973 by the Supreme Court. It was bought by a Mexican American family that said the low funding we were seeing in the district violates the United States constitution and equal protection clause. And their rights were being violated by the low funding they go
Sot tc they are very nice. Kron four reached out to both hospitals where the 2 survivors were taken to in riverside, one person is in critical condition, the other was stable. We also reached out to the coroner who tells us that they are workign to identify all of those killed in the crash. Te another big story were following tonight. President trump is expected to once again tackle the thorny issue of immigration in his speech to congress tonight. Its happening as San Franciscos District Attorney is reaching out to try and soothe the fears of undocumented victims of crime. The president s speech an attempt to hit reset on the turbulent early days ofhis time in office is scheduled to begin in about an hour. Were hearing that he may be open to a compromise of sorts when it comes to immigration legistation. Well have more on that in just a bit. But first. We hear from kron4s maureen kelly. Who was there today as San Franciscos District Attorney reaffirmed his commitment to undocumented m
And as we know, nonreligious private schools often cost four, five times that amount. So as a consequence, over 80 , close to 80 of students in the program are attending religious private school. So florida is not alone in that regard although it was one of the first off the mark. Florida s. T. O. M. P. Program has been implemented in a number of different states from indiana to louisiana to pennsylvania. So north and south, east and west. Such that the wall street journal called 2011 the year of School Choice. And 2012 had even more School Choice programs being implemented around the country. So at this point we are serving a dramatically altered cascade. So thats kind of a preamble to the types of world in which we are living right now. You may want to ask yourself okay, why are we doing this . What why might we have moved from a choice environment where students had, families had very little choice. The choice was essentially limited to the residential location for all intents and p
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