On Equal Terms (eBook)

The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity

Douglas S. Reed (Autor)

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2021
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22773-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;resource segregation"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 8 tables, 1 halftone, 16 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abbott district • Abbott III decision • Academic achievement • Acting (law) • activism • Affirmative Action • African Americans • Allen, Yorke • alternative school • Amendment • americans • Attendance • beneficiary • Black Power Movement • Board of Directors • Bonazzi, Robert • Brock, David • Brown v. Board of Education • Burger, Warren • Charter Schools • civil liberties • Civil Rights Movement • class conflict • Classroom • Coleman Report (1966) • Connecticut General Assembly • Connecticut Supreme Court • Consideration • constitutional amendment • Constitutionalism • constitutional law • Consumption (Economics) • conventional wisdom • core curriculum plan (New Jersey) • Counting • court order • Culberson, John • declaratory relief • desegregation • Desegregation busing • Determinant • disadvantage • economic forces • Economic Inequality • Education Act • educational inequality • educational program • Education in the United States • education reform • Elementary School • Equality before the law • Equal Opportunity • Equal Protection Clause • Evans, William N. • Expenditure • family income • Federal Court (Canada) • federal judge • Feinsod, Lawrence • Finance • Florida Supreme Court • florio • Foluke, Andaiye • Fundamental Rights • Funding • Goodwin, Dorothy • Gormley, William • Governance • Griffin, Stephen • Halpern, Stephen • hispanic students • Horton II decision • Ideology • income • Infrastructure • injunction • injunctive relief • Institution • Jackson, Kenneth • Joe Lieberman • Johnson, Michael • Judicial Activism • judicial deference • Judicial interpretation • judicial political learning • Judiciary • K8 • Klagholz, Leo • Law library • Lawsuit • lawyer • Legal Defense Fund (NAACP) • Legal Doctrine • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Lieberman, Joe • Localism (politics) • Local property tax (Ireland) • magnet school • Marshall, Thurgood • McReynolds, James • middle class • Milliken v. Bradley • Monetsano, Joseph • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Center for Education Statistics • Neely, Richard • New Jersey Department of Education • New Jersey Supreme Court • obstacle • of education • Ohio Constitution • optimism • Oregon • parochial education • Party leaders of the United States Senate • Pension • percentage • Peters, Ellen • plaintiff • Policy • political strategy • Politics • politics of the united states • Poritz, Deborah • Precedent • pre-kindergarten • Princeton University Press • Private School • Property Tax • Public Policy • Public school (United Kingdom) • Pyatt, Graham • Quality Education • race matters • racial hierarchy • racial integration • Racial segregation • Racism • Rae, Douglas • rational choice model • Real estate appraisal • Regime • Respondent • Richard Riley • Right to Education • Rodriguez, Demetrio • Rosenberg, Gerald • Rural Poverty • San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez • Schedule TO • school choice • school choice reform • school district • school facilities financing • School voucher • Schwab, Robert M. • Search and seizure • secondary education • Separate school • Separation of Powers • Slavery • Social Inequality • State Aid • State constitution (Australia) • State constitution (United States) • State court (United States) • State Government • state income tax • state school • State supreme court • statistical significance • Subsidy • suburb • supreme court of the united states • Suspect classification • Symbolic Racism • Tax • tax credit • Taxpayer • tax revenue • Tedin, Kent, • Texas Constitution • The Hollow Hope • The Right to Privacy (article) • Total Maximum School Aid • Trade-off • United States constitution • United States federal judge • University of North Carolina • Voting • Wealth • welfare • white flight • white supremacy • Writing • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22773-X / 069122773X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22773-3 / 9780691227733