Education: Equality in Hawaii

"Education, of course, is not among the rights afforded explicit protection under our federal Constitution." With those chilly words by Justice Lewis F.

Powell, a 5-to-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court last March struck down a Texas lawsuit that aimed at greater equality of spending in education. Although it may be unjust for wealthy school districts to have more money to spend on education, the court said, these inequities in local taxes* should be solved by the states and local communities themselves. Since then, a number of them have been trying to do just that.

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