Article: Mississippi Dems: Greg Davis Opposed Funding the Mississippi Adequate Education Program

Article: Outcome-based education policy remains best path
Concord Monitor;  October 13, 2006 ;     583 words ......the Legislature defined an adequate education in 1999. The definition was...encompassed more than an adequate education. So the court ordered the Legislature to define a merely adequate education so that its cost could be...

Article: Court must not back down from its rulings
Concord Monitor;  June 23, 2006 ;     430 words ......constitutional if it does not define an adequate education, and that definition must come from...unconstitutional because it does not define an adequate education. (That is not the only reason the...provide a real definition of what an adequate education is. The worst thing it could ...

Article: Claremont, N.H., focuses on what makes up 'adequate education'.
Eagle Times (Claremont, NH);  March 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......definition of What constitutes an adequate education? The Supreme Court has ordered the...to come up with a definition of an adequate education and then find a way to pay for it...Force committee, formed to define an adequate education, is satisfied with the meaning, discussion...

Article: Claremont rulings an abuse of court power; No definition will ever satisfy critics and court
Concord Monitor;  October 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ......state office who want to define an adequate education so the Supreme Court doesn't do it...governor finally were to define an adequate education, the court would then defer to this...representative branches needed to define an adequate education in Claremont I, which was issued...

Article: Court continues to rewrite constitution
Concord Monitor;  September 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ......passed an acceptable definition of an adequate education. But where in the constitution does...Legislature and governor must define an adequate education, let alone a definition acceptable...supposed source of the duty to define an adequate education. Article 83 simply says that ...

Article: School funding amendment is attempt to avoid responsibility ; Targeting aid to poor schools already legal
Concord Monitor;  February 18, 2008 ;     684 words ......watering down the concept of an adequate education and taking away its primacy.) The...educable child of New Hampshire with an adequate education, one that gives each child an enforceable...state's obligation to provide an adequate education runs to the children as individuals...

Article: Kindergarten could come to all schools
Concord Monitor;  March 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......kindergarten in the state's definition of an adequate education. The decision moves lawmakers a step...deadline for defining a constitutionally adequate education. "Kindergarten is not just a sound...which laid out a definition of an adequate education - spurred impassioned criticism ...

Article: Why we need an amendment ; Right now, we can't target aid efficiently
Concord Monitor;  February 10, 2008 ;     582 words ......Oversight Committee on Costing an Adequate Education. Anyone who cares about the future...on the cost figures attached to an adequate education. But the report's real value may...costs are included in providing an adequate education for every child and finds that additional...

Article: Grab-bag school law is ludicrous Coming up short; A willful breach
Concord Monitor;  July 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ......whole concept of a state-financed adequate education. In its place, the new law delivers...a duty on the state to provide an adequate education to every educable child. The Legislature...more, the right to a state-provided adequate education runs to every child, wherever the...

Article: Educational adequacy, cost can't be separated
Concord Monitor;  January 28, 2007 ;     512 words ......suggested they intend to define an adequate education during this legislative session and...will not be easy. Do you define an adequate education by how well it prepares children...devising a process for defining an adequate education. To their credit, they explicitly...

Article: New Hampshire lawmakers seek to define 'adequate' education.
Eagle Times (Claremont, NH);  February 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......articulated the first definition of an adequate education Monday, more than a decade after...court ordered lawmakers to define an adequate education by June 30, spelling out how much...frameworks to define the constitutionally adequate education that the state must provide ...

Article: One more inadequate school funding plan
Concord Monitor;  March 2, 2008 ;     546 words ......requirement that the state pay for an adequate education for every New Hampshire child and...s order that the state define an adequate education and establish its cost. It could...the court bought the notion that an adequate education costs about $3,450 per pupil, about...

Article: GOV. LYNCH, DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE DEFINITION FOR AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 12, 2007 ;     564 words ......a comprehensive definition of an adequate education based on New Hampshire's existing...directed the legislature to define an adequate education by June 30. "This is an important...significant." Under the proposal, an adequate education in New Hampshire is defined as an...

Article: Senators grill reps on costless education model; Supporters: Definition is separate from price
Concord Monitor;  May 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......crafted the House's definition of an adequate education defended their work yesterday before...argued that lawmakers should define an adequate education first and figure out its cost later...in terms of what's the cost of an adequate education?" Bragdon said. Rous said she was...