CCJEF is a broad-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to achieve an adequately and equitably funded PK-12 public education system that is based on the learning needs of students and the real costs of delivering high-quality education in every community... [read more]

Susan Haigh, AP story on CCJEF appeal, April 22, 2008

Marcia Chambers, New Haven Independent story on the appeal, April 24, 2008

News coverage of CCJEF v Rell appeal, April-May, 2008

Oral arguments before the Connecticut Supreme Court were heard in CCJEF v. Rell on April 22, 2008. 

The Connecticut Supreme Court now faces an historic question:  Do schoolchildren have the right to an adequate education? 

CCJEF argues that under the constitution’s education clause, children do indeed have the right to a meaningful, quality education consistent with the needs of today’s competitive economy, the rigors of higher education, and full participation in a democratic society. 

The State argues that there is no such constitutional right, that its duty to schoolchildren is minimal and that so long as education is free and “equally inadequate,” there’s no reason for the courts to intervene in matters that ought to be left to the discretion of the other two branches of state government. 

The Court’s decision is expected in late summer.

Watch the news conference that briefly explains CCJEF’s appeal at http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/ondemand.asp?ID=3494.  

CTN link to the Supreme Court oral arguments:

www.ctn.state.ct.us/ondemand.asp?ID=3511

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Last updated 09/18/2008.