CT’s high court to hear landmark school funding case

Robert Cotto Jr. Photo: WNPR

WNPR invited Robert Cotto Jr. a lecturer in Educational Studies at Trinity College, to bring us up to date on the long-running case brought by the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding.

A little over a year ago, Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher issued a sweeping decision in a landmark education lawsuit centered on the way Connecticut funds its public schools.

An appeal of that decision goes before the Connecticut Supreme Court this week.

The case, brought in 2004-2005, originally was brought by advocates who were arguing that the state’s method of funding public education was basically unconstitutional.

They basically said that there wasn’t a sufficient or adequate amount of funding for schools in Connecticut -- public schools in particular, and the funding that was there was not being allocated in an equitable fashion -- meaning that towns and cities that needed more were not getting the resources that they needed.

Read WNPR's interview here.