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What Would Thurgood Marshall Do?
federal court sent strategists back to the state constitution of Texas.
far too vital to permit state discrimination on grounds as tenuous as those presented by this record.
and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.” Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 494 (1954).
I must therefore respectfully dissent.
schoolchildren, in terms of the amount of funds available for public education.
the monies spent on public education in Texas. 16 Technically, they are distributed under two programs.
of the Program; the remaining 20% is distributed among the local school districts under the [411 U.S.
pupil, hardly suggest that the wealth gap between the districts is being narrowed by the State Program.
educational planning – may nevertheless excel is to the credit of the child, not the State, cf.
child the opportunities lost and the talents wasted for want of a broader, more enriched education?
question of state-created discrimination in the provision of public education. Cf. Gaston County v.
United States, 395 U.S. 285, 293 -294 (1969).
affect the quality of children’s education must fall upon the appellants. Cf. Hobson v. Hansen, 327 F.
Texas with respect to objective educational opportunity.
appellants’ and the Court’s remarks are not altogether clear to me.
protection claim. See, e. g., Mayer v. City of Chicago, 404 U.S. 189, 194 -195 (1971); Draper v.
same.” Tigner v. Texas, 310 U.S. 141, 147 (1940).
not addressed to the minimal sufficiency but rather to the unjustifiable inequalities of state action.
It mandates nothing less than that “all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.” F.
S. Royster Guano Co. v. Virginia, 253 U.S. 412, 415 (1920).
live” and thus creates a disadvantaged class composed of persons living in property-poor districts.
for our purposes seems indisputable to me.
346 U.S. 545, 550 -554 (1954).
characteristic such as geographic location. See Gordon v. Lance, 403 U.S. 1, 4 (1971); Reynolds v.
provided some Texas schoolchildren with substantially less resources for their education than others.
of the amount of taxable property located within their local districts.

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