Acknowledging the courts' mixed effectiveness in the battle for educational equality or adequacy, this article analyzes the substantive splits in authority over whether states must provide an “adequate” public education or an “equal” public education. The landmark legislation entitled...

This study was prepared by Martin Schlotter while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Econcomics at the University of Munich in November 2011. It addresses the effects of different early...