Final Installment of Rose at 20

Justin has posted the final video from Rose at 20 over at EdJurist.

It features chats from Craig Wood of the University of Florida, William Thro of Christopher Newport University, and William Koski of Stanford University Law School and the moderator of the symposium Kern Alexander, a consultant to the Council for Better Education and a major player in the case.

Rose at 20: Kentucky Law Journal Symposium from UK College of Education on Vimeo.

Thanks again to Justin Bathon and the Education Law Association along with the folks at UK Education and Law for a great program on an important toppic.

Rose at 20: Beshear

Over at EdJurist, Justin has begun posting videos from the recent Rose at 20 event. He says,

Today, the first of those is the Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear. The first part of this speech, really the first 7-8 minutes, is absolute gold. I was really highly impressed with the Governor and he was really being honest in his statements because he was a player in the litigation as the Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky around the time of the case. He brought a good deal of political heft and class to the event. Enjoy:

Rose at 20: Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear from UK College of Education on Vimeo.

Thanks Justin and Brad Duncan for doing the video.

More details on Rose at 20

Over at EdJurist, Justin Bathon has confirmed some more details for the upcoming event in conjunction with the Education Law Association in Louisville, Kentucky on October 21 in the evening.

The event is tentatively called "Rose at 20: The Past and Future of School Finance Litigation" and will be held in the Brown Hotel's Gallery Ballroom in Louisville. More details will follow, but I'll leak a little secret on the blog that a very high ranking Kentucky official is planning to be in attendance and speak at the event.

We also have a lot of other dignitaries on board as well as several experts on school finance both in Kentucky and around the nation (Kern Alexander, Craig Wood, William Thro, Bill Koski, to name a few). The Kentucky Law Journal is doing a special issue for the occasion. And, Scott and our new colleague Neal Hutchens (who I hope to have another announcement about coming soon) have been helping out on the event.

Thanks for the shoutout, Justin.

Kentucky School Finance History

Over at EdJurist, Justin Bathon has been producing videos illustrative of various school law topics.

On Tuesday he posted a nice explanation of the history of school finance in Kentucky as outlined by Council for Better Education co-counsel Debra Dawahare's "Public School Reform: Kentucky's Solution" and Bill Hoyt's, "An Evaluation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act."



Nice. I found myself wanting more, like something on the Rollback law.

Notes: The number of CBE school districts at the time the Council's case was filed was actually 60 according to the council's own records. CBE kept saying 66 because that represented the number at which Bert Combs agreed to represent them. *

It should be noted that the Corns Committee Bathon refers to was determined to be an unconstitutional intrusion into legislative authority. This separation of powers issue was also key to the summary judgment issued in Young.

* Day, Richard E., Each Child, Every Child: The Story of the Council for Better Education, Equity and Adequacy in Kentucky’s Schools, Ed. D. diss., University of Kentucky, 2003