Historical Background The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts was called upon to decide its first education finance case in 1819
Maryland
Historical Background In 1983, Maryland’s intermediate appeals court, the Court of Appeals rejected an “equity” challenge to the state’s
Kentucky
Historical Background In 1985, 66 property-poor rural school districts in Kentucky filed a lawsuit claiming that the state education finance
Kansas
Historical Background The four cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court desegregation decision
Idaho
Historical Background In 1975, the Idaho Supreme Court, in Thompson v. Engelking, 537 P.2d 635, rejected a claim that the state school
Delaware
Historical Background From 1973-2017, Delaware was one of the few states around the country in which no equity or adequacy litigations had been
Connecticut
Historical Background The Connecticut Supreme Court was one of the first of the state high courts, along
Tennessee
Historical Background In 1993, the Supreme Court of Tennessee ruled, in Tennessee Small School Systems v. McWherter, 851 S.W.2d 139 (Small
California
Historical Background Serrano v. Priest In 1971, the California Supreme Court ruled education a fundamental constitutional right and