On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Alan Rudy wrote:
> Shows what I know... apparently, in 1973, the US Supreme Court refused
> to treat equal protection as applicable to education but explicitly
> encouraged states to adjudicate that issue... and many have determined
> that over-reliance on local property taxes is unconstitutional at the
> state level. Here's a decent history of/for NJ:
Ah, this makes more sense. The short history of New Jersey is that we elected a governor -- Florio -- who took that ruling seriously and changed the state funding formula so that poor kids would get as much money as rich. Which immediately caused such an outroar and a backlash that it destroyed his high popularity and got him thrown out after one term and no one has dared it since.
So this world still goes round, then.
Michael