ALBANY – Students in eight smaller-city New York school districts were not illegally deprived of the state funding necessary to provide their students with the “sound, basic education” guaranteed by the state constitution, a judge determined Monday.
Acting Albany Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O’Connor ruled that the plaintiffs could not show that the alleged state funding deficiencies proscribed by state courts in the three landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity cases between 1995 and 2006 (NYLJ, July 28, 2014) persist to the extent that the students in the eight cities are being unlawfully disadvantaged today.
