Education
May 13, 2016
Education funding: What's a right if no guarantees on the quality of that right?
Refusing to set a minimum qualitative level of education turns the constitutional right to an education — which should be protected by the courts — into a statutory right subject to the whims of the Legislature. By Roy A. Combs and M. Lance Kennix
Roy A. Combs
Fagen, Friedman & Fulfrost LLPEmail: rcombs@fagenfriedman.com
UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA
On April 20, in a long-awaited decision in Campaign for Quality Education v. State of California and Robles-Wong v. State of California (school funding cases, 2016 DJDAR 3853), a divided panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal held that Sections 1 and 5 of Article IX of the California Constitution "evince no constitutional mandate to an education of a particular standard of achievement or i...
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