Reviewing literature on educational finance and law, this paper analyzes the rationale for the recent school finance reform movement and recounts the movement's progress from 1965 to 1979. An overview of the problem discusses state equalization programs' ability to provide financial equity and the relationship of financial equity to equal…

This Civil Action (C.A.) settlement agreement concerns employment policies (specifically of minorities), student transfers, boundary changes and new school construction, facilities and supplies, instructional programming, the dropout rate, and retention of the Voluntary Interdistrict Education Plan. These concerns are related to the increase of…

Examines the sources of legal policy challenged by critics of the Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery report. Indicates solid legal precedent for "burden shifting" to the employer when employment practice adversely affects a protected class. Finds that critics attack what is simply a description of established social policy.…