1. (a) What claim was raised by Mexican-American students in San Antonio Independent School District?

(b) Who won this suit in the U.S. Supreme Court, and what was the reasoning of the decision?

2. Consider the San Antonio Independent School District decision in light of the decision of Brown v. Board of Education (Brown I) that under the Equal Protection clause, “in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” Discuss whether these two decisions are consistent or inconsistent?

3. Prepare a chronology of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity litigation, identifying and describing the various court decisions throughout this litigation

4. In the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, did the Court of Appeals base its 1995 decision on the New York State or the U.S. Constitution

5. (a) What standard for a “sound basic education” did the Appellate Division apply in Campaign for Fiscal Equality in its 2002 decision? 

(b) How does the 2003 decision of the Court of Appeals differ in its definition of a “sound basic education?”

(c) Which standard do you believe is more appropriate? Why?

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1 a The claim that was raised by MexicanAmerican students in San Antonio Independent School District was that the education was a fundamental right They argued this inequity was unconstitutional under ... View the full answer