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Rodriguez v. San Antonio
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Rodriguez v. San Antonio
By Jade Preciado
Bibliography
- "Equal Protection." The Free Dictionary. The Gale Group, 2008. Web. 20 Oct. 2014.
- Kozol, Jonathan. "The Dream Deferred, Again, in San Antonio." Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. Harper Perennial, 1991. 206-233. Print.
- Mellen, Neil. "Education Funding in South Carolina." SCRG Foundation. SCRG Foundation. Web. 20 Oct. 2014.
- Orozco, Cynthia. "RODRIGUEZ V. SAN ANTONIO ISD." Handbook of Texas Online. Published by the Texas State Historical Association., 15 June 2010. Web. 20 Oct. 2014.
- SAN ANTONIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIS. v. RODRIGUEZ. The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Web. 20 October 2014. <http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1972/1972_71_1332>.
- "South Carolina Property Tax Rates By County." SC Commerece. South Carolina Association of Counties, Jan. 2011. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. <http://sccommerce.com/sites/default/files/document_directory/Property_Tax_Rates_by_County_in_South_Carolina_2010.pdf>.
Argument
Did Texas' public education finance system violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by failing to distribute funding equally among its school districts? -oyez.org
- How?
- Property Taxes
- State and Federal aid
Conclusion
"the system did not systematically discriminate against all poor people in Texas"
"the Equal Protection Clause does not require absolute equality or precisely equal advantages." -Chief Justice Powell
"a retreat from our historic commitment to equality of educational opportunity." -Justice Thurgood Marshall
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Financing System
- Per $100 property value
- Edgewood: 96% non-white
- $5.76
- $37 per student
- $231 with state/federal aid
- Alamo Heights: predominantly white
- $0.68
- $412 per student
- $543 with state/federal aid
Background
Discussion
- Education in the Constitution
- Tenth Amendment
- The Equal Protection Clause
1.) Is it fair?
2.) How would you decide?
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