Florida Public Education Case Study

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The quality of education in the nation’s public classrooms has always been subject to scrutiny. Florida’s public educational system has not been sheltered from this scrutiny. Particularly, in 1995 people urged immediate and definitive action from their representatives to resolve all of the inadequacies of the education that their children were receiving in public school system.
Florida’s history in the 1990’s witnessed two groups bringing claims against the state, alleging that it had failed to provide a uniform system of public education. In response to these allegations, the state had refused to interfere with the right of the legislature in distributing state funds. In essence, the courts determined that the Florida Constitution’s education clause is considered satisfied if “a uniform system results when the constituent parts . . . operate subject to a common plan or serve a common purpose.” State courts appeared to be satisfied that the legislature is
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In Coalition for Adequacy and Fairness in School Funding, Inc. v. Chiles, 680 So. 2d 400 (Fla. 1996), a lawsuit was brought on by a group of concerned and affected citizens, this included public school students, parents and guardians, school boards, and school board members.

The citizens sought relief against a number of state government officials and agencies; which included the Governor, the Commissioner of Education, the State Board of Education, and the officers of both houses of the Florida Legislature. They specifically, sought a declaration that stated that “an adequate education is a fundamental right under the Florida Constitution, and that the State has failed to provide its students that fundamental right by failing to allocate adequate resources for a uniform system of free public schools as provided in the Florida