{"id":3253,"date":"2011-11-23T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2011-11-29T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T01:18:11","slug":"florida-supremes-will-decide-school-quality-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/11\/23\/florida-supremes-will-decide-school-quality-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Supremes Will Decide School Quality Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lawsuit<\/a> that claims the Florida Legislature has failed to adequately educate the state\u2019s children is going to the Florida Supreme Court. State leaders appealed for a halt<\/a> to the proceedings after a trial judge rejected their request to dismiss the case, but an appellate court voted 8 \u2013 7 this week to allow the lawsuit to proceed.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed two years ago by half a dozen students and parents. They were joined in the suit by Fund Education Now<\/a>, a nonprofit focused on education reform in Florida, and Citizens for Strong Schools<\/a>, a nonprofit based in Alachua County.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs say the state is \u201cbreaching its constitutional paramount duty to provide a high quality system of free public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality education.\u201d They claim the defendants \u201chave failed to fulfill their constitutional duties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit alleges that the state has shifted responsibility for education funding to local governments in violation of the Constitution. It also claims a continued lack of security in schools, and criticizes the state\u2019s use of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test<\/a> (FCAT).<\/p>\n

Since the suit was filed in November 2009, there have been some improvements. Florida’s education system climbed to fifth in the nation, according to the latest Quality Counts<\/a> report from Education Week<\/a>. Foundation for Florida\u2019s Future<\/a>, chaired by former Gov. Jeb Bush, touts laws signed by Gov. Rick Scott<\/a> this year to expand opportunities for a quality education.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the suit seeks a court order forcing the state to craft an education plan that conforms with the Constitution’s requirements. No date has been set for the Florida Supreme Court to hear the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lawsuit that claims the Florida Legislature has failed to adequately educate the state\u2019s children is going to the Florida Supreme Court. State leaders appealed for a halt to the proceedings after a trial judge rejected their request to dismiss the case, but an appellate court voted 8 \u2013 7 this week to allow the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[182,180,179,181],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}