Equity in Public Education Funding

Selected Sources

Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar, Docket No. 78198 (1996)

Constitution of Illinois, Article X, Education

HBO750, "The School District Property Tax Relief Fund Act," 94th General Assembly State of Illinois 2005-2006

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)

San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973)

Montoy v. State of Kansas, Case No. 99-C-1738 (2003) [Kansas]

Columbia Falls v. Montana, Case No. BDV-2002-528 (April 15, 2004) [Montana]

Abbott v. Burke, 710 A.2d 450 (1998) [New Jersey]

Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. New York, 100 N.E.2d 326 (June 26, 2003) [New York]


Organizations

A+ Illinois

ACCESS School Funding Info State-by-State, Campaign for Educational Equity, Teacher's College, Columbia University

Better Funding for Better Schools Coalition

Illinois State Board of Education, Funding and Disbursements

Students First Illinois


Analysis

Constitutional Amendment Survey Report

Education Funding Advisory Board. "Illinois Education Funding Recommendations A Report Submitted to the Illinois General Assembly by the Education Funding Advisory Board," April 2005

Jackson, Jesse, Jr. "Amendment would ensure quality education for all," Chicago Sun-Times, January 17, 2006

Neighborhood Capital Budget Group " State of the Facilities in Chicago High Schools"

People for the American Way. "Inequality in Illinois: How Illogical School funding has eroded Public Education" (May 2004)




Voting Rights for Ex-Felons

Resources

American Civil Liberties Union, "Voting Rights: Ex-Offenders"

Center for Equal Opportunity

Illinois State Board of Elections

National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Election Laws and Procedures"

The Sentencing Project


Documents

Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, Public Law 107-252, 107th Congress (2002)


Information and Analysis

American Civil Liberties Union. "Purged! How Flawed and Inconsistent Voting Systems Could Deprive Millions of Americans of the Right to Vote," October 19, 2004

Clegg, Roger. "Testimony of Roger Clegg, Vice President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity, before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, regarding H.R. 906, a bill "To Secure The Federal Voting Rights Of Persons Who Have Been Released From Incarceration," October 21, 1999

Ewald, Alec. "A 'Crazy-Quilt' of Tiny Pieces: State and Local Administration of American Criminal Disenfranchisement Law," November, 2005

Love, Margaret Colgate. "Table # 7 - Felony Disenfranchisement in the United States," in Relief from the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction, January 2006

Manza, Jeff, Christopher Uggen, and Marcus Britton. "The Truly Disfranchised: Felon Voting Rights and American Politics." American Sociological Review, December 2002

National Conference of State Legislatures. "Voting Rights Restoration Process"




Detaining U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants


Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States

Ex Parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 937 (1952)

Hamdi et al. v. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, et al., No. 03-6696 (2004)

Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense v. Padilla et al, No. 03-1027 (2004)


Other Federal Documents

"Authorization for Use of Military Force," Public Law 107-40 [S. J. RES. 23], September 18, 2001, 107th CONGRESS

"Memorandum of President George W. Bush designating Jose Padilla an 'enemy combatant,'" June 9, 2002


Analysis and Commentary

"Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri case"

American Bar Association, "Anti-Terrorism and Preservation of Due Process-Enemy Combatants"

American Bar Association, "Policy Statement on Enemy Combatants," February 2003 [pdf]

FindLaw.com. "Special Coverage: War on Terrorism"

David Scheffer, "Options for Prosecuting International Terrorists," United States Institute of Peace, Special Report 78, November 2001



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