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Scope and Content Note

These subject files document Lois Wilson's work at a variety of positions with responsibility for education policy. Subjects center around the topic of state financial aid to education. Included is material generated by or related to several task forces on educational finance reform, including the New York State Task Force on Implementing Educational Reform (1989); New York State Commission on the Quality, Cost, and Financing of Elementary and Secondary Education (Fleischmann Commission, 1972); Task Force on State Aid to Elementary and Secondary Schools (1973); and the Temporary State Commission on the Distribution of State Aid to Local School Districts (1988).

Material includes reports to and by the task forces; meeting files; legal briefs, opinions and decisions; fiscal statistics; bill files; and written responses and examinations before trials.

There are files on several court cases related to school aid and funding, including Levittown v. Nyquist, a challenge to the New York method of financing primary and secondary education on the grounds of violations of both the federal and state constitutions (New York State Supreme Court 1976-1977, Appellate Court 1980-1982).