The Council for Fair School Finance

The Council for Fair School Finance was founded in 1975 in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared equitable school finance to be a matter for state courts to decide under state constitutions. Since then, the Council has supported plaintiffs seeking adequate funding for public schools before the courts, including the Hancock v. Commissioner of Education Driscoll trial scheduled to begin in June 2003 in Massachusetts Superior Court. Its members include the American Civil Liberties Union of Mass., Citizens for Public Schools, the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, the Mass. Association of School Committees, the Mass. Association of School Superintendents, the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers, the Mass. Parent-Teacher-Student Association and the Massachusetts Teachers Association. The Council is a statewide coalition whose only purpose is to pursue this lawsuit.

Norma Shapiro is the current president of the Council.