For the Plaintiffs- Equal School Resource Allocation

This paper relates to the protection issue in education: an opportunity for education, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.' Resource allocation aspects of educational policy are increasingly being argued in the courts. In Mclnnis v. Shapiro,2 parents of children in the Illinois public schools brought a class action which argued (unsuccessfully) that the state should guarantee that each child in the Illinois public schools receive a level of expenditures determined only by his educational needs. In Serrano v. Priest, the request is more modest.3 The court declared unconstitutional the corre-