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This 4 page paper provides the background and key events in the case known as MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, ET AL. v. KEITH A. BRADFORD, ET AL. This case is about school finance. Lawsuits were brought against the state for inadequate school funding and specifically about the state funding for the public schools in the city of Baltimore. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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ET AL. v. KEITH A. BRADFORD, ET AL.] At least 23 states have been involved in court battles over school funding and more specifically, the adequacy of school funding (Loh,
2005). These lawsuits all focus on the way in which states pay for public education (Loh, 2005). The case in Maryland, presently under the court title of Maryland v.
Bradford, No. 04-85n has been in litigation for many years because, as the Court of Appeals noted, "Hornbeck v. Somerset Co. Bd. of Educ., 295 Md. 597, 458 A.2d 758
(1983), which, in a sense, was a precursor to the present litigation" (Wilner, 2005). Justice Wilner (2005), in writing the opinion for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, stated:
This appeal constitutes the latest skirmish in a decades-long battle by Baltimore City and others to force the General Assembly, in carrying out its mandate under Article VIII of the
Maryland Constitution to "establish throughout the State a thorough and efficient System of Free Public Schools [and] provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance," to increase substantially its funding
support for the Baltimore City Public School System. There is a lengthy historical background to the current case (ACCESS, 2004). It was back in 1983 that Marylands high court,
in Hornbeck v. Somerset Co. Bd. of Educ., rejected an equity challenge to the states education finance system (ACCESS, 2004). The court held that equality on per student spending among
school districts was not mandated in the states constitution (ACCESS, 2004). But, the court also said that the Constitution does mandate a right to "an adequate education measured by contemporary
educational standards" (ACCESS, 2004). Skip ahead to 1994 - both the ACLU and Baltimore City filed lawsuits against the state charging that Baltimores students were not receiving adequate education (ACCESS,
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