Scholarship
The Library gathers the historical, legal, financial, and state-by-state record so the field has one durable reference shelf.
ASTL · Renewal
The bigger campaign
ASTL is the national advocacy table. The bigger campaign is Renewal: the long work of turning the school-trust record into scholarship, lawyer capacity, state-by-state readiness, and reform architecture that can survive beyond any single case.
The legal and institutional problem is national. Oregon matters because Oregon is visible and already has failures in the record. But the scholarship, lawyer recruitment, state inventories, and model-law drafting do not wait on any one case. On July 24, 2026 the Coos County Circuit Court granted the State summary judgment in Oregon's beneficiary suit and canceled the August trial; this work continues on the schedule it kept before. There will always be another hearing, another ruling, or another reason to postpone it.
Renewal proceeds in a declaratory register: name the duty, gather the evidence, train the field, and make reform imaginable before a state needs it under pressure. Any live-case strategy remains separate and is handled through counsel-of-record channels.
Four workstreams
What Renewal builds while cases move at court speed.
Lawyer capacity
The hornbook and lawyer on-ramp help attorneys enter school-trust law through bounded verification and research work.
State inventories
State pages, disclosure scoring, and agency records make trust posture visible before a crisis forces the issue.
Model reform
The Renewal program develops public-trust architecture that states can study, adapt, and debate before legislation is introduced.
Model Law
A law that says nothing new.
The public working draft closes the practical gaps that keep existing school-trust duties from being enforced in ordinary public life.
Open the model law →Lawyer on-ramp
Start with the hornbook.
Lawyers can enter through bounded citation checks, state appendices, case annotations, and work samples before any panel role is considered.
Open the Library on-ramp →Campus anteroom
Renewal at schooltrusts.org.
The campus page explains how Renewal sits beside the Record and the Advocates as the reform and institutional-design pillar.
Open Renewal →