EDUC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Grutter V. Bollinger, William Milliken, Narrow Tailoring
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The court decided that a state may consituionally vary the quality of educaion which it ofers its children in accordance with the amount of taxable wealth located in the school district. The court made this decision although the absence of any substanial jusiicaion for a scheme which arbitrarily channels educaional resources in accordance with the fortuity of the amount of taxable wealth within each district. Consituionally muster- texas school inancing scheme is consituionally invalid (cid:1) The school district denied morales applicaion for free admission and. Marinez challenged the law in court: the quesion was did the texas law violate the equal protecions clause of the 14 th. Amendment? ruling (8-1)bynum: the court thought that the consituion permited states to restrict eligibility for tuiion free educaion to bon-ide residents. Far more generous than they needed to be: the court said it is not a violaion of the equal protecion clause . (cid:1)