Judicial Requirements for School Finance and Property Tax Redesign: The Rapidly Evolving Case Law. Proceedings of National Tax Association and Fund for Public Policy Research Seminar on Financing the Seventies. (Boston, Massachusetts, April 12-14, 1972.).

Schoettle, Ferdinand P.

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Judicial Requirements for School Finance and Property Tax Redesign: The Rapidly Evolving Case Law. Proceedings of National Tax Association and Fund for Public Policy Research Seminar on Financing the Seventies. (Boston, Massachusetts, April 12-14, 1972.)

Schoettle, Ferdinand P.

National Tax Journal, 25, 3, 455-472, Sep 72

Discusses recent court decisions striking down State school finance systems as being in violation of the equal protection clause. Part one summarizes the relevant constitutional law as well as holdings and rationales of the cases. Part two considers alternative schemes that utilize the property tax as part of the system for funding public schools. Part three discusses the eventual dispositions that the Supreme Court may make of the issues presented in the cases. (Author/JF)

Descriptors: Court Doctrine, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Equal Protection, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student, Property Taxes, Public Schools

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