Enhancing court capacity to enforce education rights: judicial tools used in Abbott v. Burke

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This policy brief examines a critical aspect of quality education litigation: the tools available to courts to fashion and ensure implementation of a constitutional method of funding public education to improve schools.

As a case study, the brief analyzes the techniques employed by the New Jersey Supreme Court in providing a remedy to disadvantaged urban school children in the long-running Abbott v. Burke case.

The Abbott litigation offers important lessons on how courts can ...

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Authors: Sciarra, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Publisher's website
• Series: Courts and the making of public policy
• Place of publication: http://www.fljs.org/content/courts-and-making-public-policy-publications-0
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: Abbott v. Burke; New Jersey. Supreme Court; Right to education; Judicial process
• Subjects: Constitutional & administrative law; Social disadvantage; Socio-legal studies; Civil Rights; Public policy; Education; Human rights