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Constitutional Law Keyed to Levinson
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
Citation:
411 U.S. 1 (1973)Facts
Rodriguez (Respondent), one of a group of Mexican-American parents whose children attended the elementary and secondary schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, Texas, challenged the Texas system of financing public education. At the time of the litigation, approximately 40% of Texas’s state education budget came from local property taxes. Texas law also imposed a ceiling on the local property-tax rate that any locality could assess. Because Edgewood was in a district with low property values, it raised only $26 per student in local funds and spent $356 per student during the 1967-68 school year. In contrast, Alamo Heights Independent School District, which was also in San Antonio, raised substantially more money from property taxes and spent $594 per student.
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