Beyond School Finance : Refocusing Education Reform Litigation to Realize the Deferred Dream of Education Equality and Adequacy
The academic achievement gap between poor, minority students and their wealthier white peers has been one of the most troubling and persistent policy problems in the United States throughout its history. For the past forty years, education reformers have turned to the courts to increase educational opportunities for minority children and kids growing up in poverty. While the Supreme Court's decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez foreclosed the possibility of a federal right to equalized education expenditures, education reform plaintiffs in many states have been able to secure a state constitutional right to equalized education expenditures. Yet, despite these judicial victories, education reformers have failed to achieve their ultimate goal of equalizing educational opportunities. A substantial achievement gap that cuts along racial and socioeconomic lines still exists. Thus, the focus on disparities in education expenditures appears misplaced. This Comment proposes that litigants should instead challenge inequitable or inadequate distributions of skill-based education inputs at the local level. This new approach is superior to the current focus on school finance challenges because researchers have increasingly found that skill-based inputs, such as teacher quality, are substantially related to improved academic outcomes. The approach this Comment proposes is also superior to finance suits because courts should be more receptive to these locally-focused challenges, which raise fewer justiciability concerns than school finance suits. Accordingly, these new claims have the potential to lead to greater success in the courtroom and in the classroom
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2013
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Authors: | Buszin, Jared |
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[2013]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Schulfinanzierung | School finance | Bildungsreform | Education reform |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (45 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: 62 Emory L.J. 1613 (2013) Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 12, 2012 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091175
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