Since Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation battles
of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational
opportunity in the United States has been framed largely around
race. But for nearly thirty years now, a less-noticed but
controversial legal campaign has been afoot to equalize or improve
the resources of poorly funded schools. This book examines both the
consequences of efforts to use state constitutional provisions to
reduce the "resource segregation" of American schools and the
politics of the opposition to these decisions.
"On Equal Terms" compares the relative success of school finance
lawsuits to the project of school desegregation and explores how
race and class present sharply different obstacles to courts. Since
a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that effectively deferred to the
states in the matter of educational equity, about a third of state
judiciaries have mandated reform of state-level educational funding
systems. Douglas Reed analyzes both the rhetoric of reform and the
varying effects of these controversial decisions while critiquing
the courts' failure to more clearly define educational equity.
Well-written with keen insight throughout, the book concludes
with an intriguing policy proposal that acknowledges obstacles to
such efforts. This proposal aims to enhance education by fostering
racial and economic integration locally. Setting the stage for a
more coherent debate on this controversial issue and expanding our
understanding of constitutional design, "On Equal Terms" will have
far-reaching implications for law, public policy, politics, and not
least, the future of American education.
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