Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, Inc. v. Governor M. Jodi Rel — Vertefeuille, J…

Summary

The dissent agrees that the plaintiffs' education-funding claims are justiciable but rejects the conclusion that the state constitution guarantees a judicially enforceable right to a suitable or adequate education. It would hold that the education clause guarantees continuation of a statewide system of free public schools and leaves educational quality, standards, and remedies to the legislature. Justice Zarella, dissenting, would likewise treat the claims as nonjusticiable political questions, while Justices Schaller and Palmer, concurring, would recognize a justiciable but deferentially defined right to an adequate or minimally adequate education.