Education law - school funding - Michigan moves toward statewide collection and distribution of education funds

Article Abstract:

Legislation has been passed in Michigan to create a more equitable system of school funding. The former system based on local property taxes has been replaced by a system using state revenues and statewide distribution of funds. Sales tax provides over half the funds, while other sources include property tax, lotteries and income tax. While the new system is more equitable in distribution of funds, the sales tax is more regressive than property tax. Equity could be enhanced by relying more on income tax rather than sales tax and by more rapidly eliminating disparities between rich and poor school districts.

Finance, Education, Michigan, Educational equalization, Equal education, State aid to education

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When love is not enough: toward a unified wrongful adoption tort

Article Abstract:

A new 'wrongful adoption' tort should be created which would impose a standard of reasonable care on adoption agencies to investigate and disclose relevant information about the adoptee. Annulment of the adoption would be a possible remedy instead of a separate procedure. This mechanism would unify three currently existing legal devices: disclosure statutes, annulment proceedings and wrongful adoption litigation. The new wrongful adoption tort would correct deficiencies in the current system and create greater trust between adoption agencies and their potential clients.

Innovations, Cases, Adoption, Torts

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Transracial adoption - Congress forbids use of race as a factor in adoptive placement decisions

Article Abstract:

Interpretive guidelines following Congress's 1996 passage of the Small Business Jobs Protection Act should clearly forbid the use of racial sensitivity screening in regard to trans-racial adoptions. The adoption aspect of the law replaces the 1994 Howard M Metzenbaum Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA), making few changes except to remove MEPA's language allowing the consideration of prospective parents' racial or cultural sensitivity in deciding whether, and with whom, to place potential adoptees.

United States, Interracial adoption

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