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Serrano v. Priest  

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  • Serrano v. Priest (1971) is a long-standing challenge to state school finances premised on violations of federal and state equal protection clauses as they relate to schools. At its core was the question of whether the State of California's school funding scheme violated federal and state equal protection clauses because the continuum of school funds available to districts as a result of the state funding formula predicated on local property taxes. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Education; Serrano V. Priest]

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