FillyofDelphi
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Maybe as a side thread.
However, in my main ATL, I want the Supreme Court to tell the States, you’ve got to have equal education within your state. In most cases, the Court could give the state legislature a chance to act. If the state doesn’t play ball, the appropriate District Court might appoint a special master or something of that sort.
And this might be the system for about twenty years, say, from the mid-‘70s to the mid-‘90s.
And then we might see how different New York is from Arkansas is from California is from New Mexico is from New Hampshire is from Hawaii, etc.
Then you're liable to see states where this is a major issue (IE those with high regional/group income disparties) go the route of cutting public education down mostly to the lower region of the common denominators while the upper income regions lean heavier on private schools. Again, it comes down to funding capacity: poor districts will need substantial state government subsidies to get up to the funding of higher property value and pro-local levee communities, which can't be paid without substantial tax increases (education is the biggest budget item in many states) which would be political suicide... and that's if you are measuring equality by funding input rather than results. Far easier to just slash funding to the better monied districts. Its a simple matter of budgetary constraints and basic electoral calculus
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