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Maltby, Gregory P. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1976
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Finance, Finance Reform, School District Autonomy
Download full textConsortium for Policy Research in Education, New Brunswick, NJ. – 1993
Less than half of the challenges to unequal state school financing laws have succeeded. And among those challenges that were successful, funding equity has eroded over time and the litigation has been costly and protracted. However, judicial remedy is still a possible means for restoring equity in school financing and improving education. Most of…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Court Role, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Franklin, David L.; And Others – 1987
This is volume I of a two-volume study of the constitutionality of the K-12 funding system in Illinois. In this volume, seven steps are presented in the issues and outcomes of the major judicial challenges to systems of state aid to public schools. The first chapter looks at the history of state aid litigation up to the time California became the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBurke, Joel S. – Education and Urban Society, 1973
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court reverses the Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District (1971)'' decision or upholds it, ordering that state school finance systems not make expenditures a function of local wealth, federal aid can play an important role. (JM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Equal Education, Equal Protection
Maltby, Gregory P. – 1976
This paper examines the two conflicting definitions of local control inherent in the majority and minority opinions in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez. The author agrees with the minority decision that lack of adequate funds, regardless of the number of legal constraints set down by the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Houston, TX. – 1973
This study examines the current Texas school finance plan, the finance plans and proposals of other states, national school finance research, and the results of a survey of Texas leaders and educators before presenting alternative revenue and distribution plans, their effects and costs, and possible revenue sources. The study was conducted under…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1973
In this landmark educational finance opinion (presented here in full) the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Texas case was not a proper case in which to examine a State's laws under standards of strict judicial scrutiny. That test, according to the Court, is reserved for cases involving laws that operate to the disadvantage of suspect classes or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Economic Status, Educational Finance
Berke, Joel S.; And Others – 1975
This document provides background information intended to help in the formulation of educational finance policy at the national level. The first chapter discusses variations in spending within and between states since the 1930s; causes for inequitable and inefficient revenue raising and resource allocation; and differences between states in…
Descriptors: Court Doctrine, Court Litigation, Court Role, Educational Finance
