Improvements Seen to California Schools As Result of Williams Case Settlement
The settlement of a lawsuit focused on basic learning conditions in California’s schools is resulting in significant improvements, according to a report from two of the organizations that filed the challenge.
After two full years of implementation of what is known as the Williams settlement legislation, students have received more than 88,000 new textbooks and other teaching materials, and more than 3,400 emergency repairs have been paid for with state money. Such upgrades also are helping attract and retain qualified teachers, says the report, which was officially released yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and by Public Advocates Inc., two of the three civil rights groups that filed the litigation in 2000.
“We’re very happy to be able to deliver good news,” Brooks Allen, a staff lawyer in charge of statewide Williams implementation at the ACLU, said during a...
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