To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of
school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.
In response to
lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned
school -
finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented
reforms that led to major changes in
school funding.