This week we tackle the simple and uncontroversial topic of education funding with Josh Weishart. We plumb the depths of equity, equality, luck, adequacy, and sufficiency. Legislatures vs. courts, duties and immunities. Luckily Josh saves us from our usual inadequacy.

This show’s links:


Josh Weishart’s faculty profile and writing
Amy Piller, I’m a New York City school administrator. Here’s how segregation lives on.
Joshua Weishart, Transcending Equality Versus Adequacy
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
About John Rawls’ Difference Principle
Elizabeth Anderson, What Is the Point of Equality?
Debra Satz, Equality, Adequacy, and Educational Policy
Gannon v. State; and a summary of school finance litigation in New Jersey
Mark Kelman and Gillian Lester, Jumping the Queue
Joshua Weishart, Reconstituting the Right to Education
Christian Turner, Origins of the Public/Private Theory of Legal Systems
About Hohfeld
Scott Bauries, State Constitutions and Individual Rights: Conceptual Convergence in School Finance Litigation; Scott Bauries, Is There an Elephant in the Room?: Judicial Review of Educational Adequacy and the Separation of Powers in State Constitutions
Special Guest: Joshua Weishart.