Reviews of Books:The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression Walter L. Buenger

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“…The rising middle class of White professionals, merchants, and managers became another locus of power in Texas, one that often worked in tandem with large landowners but also stressed progressive priorities, particularly public education. 60 As state policies on local school taxation changed, Kirby became more and more involved in trying to limit tax valuations on his corporate property as well as the tax rates that local districts levied.…”

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The Roots of Inequality: Texas School Politics and the Leadup to Rodriguez

McLeod

2023

Hist. of Ed. Quarterly

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Contrary to Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell’s majority opinion in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), Texas’s school finance system was the result of years of legislation and state-building that gave some areas the resources and capacity to provide more educational opportunities than others. As this article demonstrates, during the century leading up to the Rodriguez decision, Texas political leaders developed a public school funding system reliant on the highly unequal spatial distribution of property wealth across rural/urban, class, and racial lines. There was nothing inevitable about this. In fact, the history of Texas’s system reveals four pivotal eras when the state’s White leaders created and maintained a school finance system reliant on local property taxes and defined by rural/urban and racial differences that cemented deep inequalities. This case study traces those changes over time and brings part of the story to life through the example of Kirbyville, Texas, and its struggle to finance a new White high school. Returning to the historical roots of school financing in Texas reveals how rural/urban, racial, and wealth inequalities have been foundational to Texas’s public school finance system.

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Section: The 1880s and 1890s: Texas Funds Public Schools With Highly ...mentioning

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The Roots of Inequality: Texas School Politics and the Leadup to Rodriguez

McLeod

2023

Hist. of Ed. Quarterly

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Reviews of Books:The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression Walter L. Buenger

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The Roots of Inequality: Texas School Politics and the Leadup to Rodriguez

The Roots of Inequality: Texas School Politics and the Leadup to Rodriguez

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