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Russo, Charles J. – School Business Affairs, 2010
Beginning in the early 1970s, plaintiffs initiated a veritable tidal wave of litigation over financing public education in states with unequal funding for students in poor school systems. In the only case on school finance to reach the United States Supreme Court, "San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez" (1973), the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Court Litigation, Public Schools, Educational Equity (Finance)
Crampton, Faith E. – School Business Affairs, 1997
Outlines trends in school finance litigation. Examines definitions of fiscal equity, reviews 20 years of litigation, and analyzes recent legal activity. Recent litigation has challenged some states' school finance systems. Court decisions have split evenly regarding permissible disparities in per-pupil operating expenditures, a measure of…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Definitions, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education