Episode 89: Adequacy

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.