Board of Education, Levittown Union Free School District, Respondents-Appellants, and Board of Education…

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals held that New York's system of financing public schools does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the Equal Protection Clause of the New York State Constitution, nor the education article of the State Constitution, and affirmed the lower courts' judgment. Justice Fuchsberg filed a dissent arguing that the system fails to meet the constitutional mandate for a system of free common schools.