May 7 – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
3Ls Abraham Matthew and Matthew Locke authored article
We have not figured out how to finance our elementary and high schools to give each child a chance to be the best that he or she can be. All 50 states are struggling with this problem and 45 states have experienced litigation on school financing. Several state Supreme Courts, most recently New Hampshire’s, have held that several school financing systems relying heavily on local property taxes to fund public schools violate their state constitutions. The rationale for each decisions is usually that a child’s access to school funds should not depend on whether he or she lives in a property-wealthy district or a property-poor district.
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