POS2041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Rational Basis Review, Strict Scrutiny, Equal Protection Clause
17 Aug 2020
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San antonio independent school district v. rodriguez case: facts of the case. In addition to being funded through a state-funded program designed to establish a minimum educational threshold in every school, texas public elementary and secondary schools rely on local property taxes for supplemental revenue. Rodriguez, acting on behalf of students whose families reside in poor districts, challenged this funding scheme by arguing that it underprivileged such students because their schools lacked the vast property tax base that other districts utilized. The reliance on assessable property, the school districts claimed, caused severe inter-district disparities in per-pupil expenditures: constitutional question. Whether texas" public education finance system violated the fourteenth amendment"s equal. Protection clause by failing to distribute funding equally among its school districts: conclusion. The court refused to examine the system with strict scrutiny since there is no fundamental right to education in the constitution and since the system did not systematically discriminate against all poor people in texas.
