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Interrogating Social Justice Paradigms in School Finance Research and Litigation

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The search for equitable educational opportunities has lead school finance reformers toward solutions conceptualized largely through distributive social justice. Inhibiting justice in this manner produces discouraging localized results despite continued educational funding policy reform. This article expands school finance literature by critically analyzing how the educational research community has justified undertaking school finance research, discretely focusing on the manner in which researchers have defined and applied the prevailing framework of justice. Finally, this research synthesis outlines innovative inquiry that attempts to resolve social justice ideological conflict within school finance research.

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  1. Flores v. Arizona (48 F.Supp.2d 937 (1999)); Horne v. Flores (557 U.S. 433(2009)); The Texas Taxpayer and Student Fairness Coalition et al. vs. Michael Williams, Commissioner of Education et al. (No. D-1-GN-11–003,130 (2013)).

  2. For example, see Serrano v. Priest (5 Cal.3d 584 (1971)) (Serrano I), San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (411 U.S.1 (1973)), Levittown UFSD v. Nyquist (57 N.Y.2d 27 (1982)), Rose v. Council for Better Education (790 S.W.2d 186, 60 Ed. Law Rep. 1289 (1989)), and Castaneda v. Pickard (648 F.2d 989; 1981 (1981)).

  3. 487 P.2d 1241 (Cal. 1971), cert. denied, 432 U.S. 907 (1977); McCleary v. State, 173 Wn.2d 477, 269 P.3d 227; Davis v. State (804 N.W.2D 618 (S.D. 2011)).

  4. Attributed to Earl Warren who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1953–1969.

  5. In Brown v. Board of Education, the Equal Protection Clause was used to determine that school segregation was unconstitutional.

  6. Serrano v. Priest (5 Cal.3d 584 (1971)) (Serrano I).

  7. San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (411 U.S.1 (1973)).

  8. Robinson v. Cahill (303 A.2d 273 (1973)).

  9. Serrano v. Priest, 18 Cal.3d 728 (1976) (Serrano II); Horton v. Meskill (172 Conn. 615 (1977)); Levittown UFSD v. Nyquist (57 N.Y.2d 27 (1982)).

  10. Rose v. Council for Better Education (790 S.W.2d 186, 60 Ed. Law Rep. 1289 (1989)).

  11. Equal Educational Opportunity Act of 1974 (EEOA), 20 U.S.C. Sec. 1701–1758; Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Title I, 2 U.S.C. 117b-2 and 117e.

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Martínez, D.G. Interrogating Social Justice Paradigms in School Finance Research and Litigation. Interchange 52, 297–317 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-021-09418-4

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