Abstract

"The Quality of Inequality"

The article highlights that two cities Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois despairing of providing quality education within the present financial context, have attacked the problem in the courts by arguing that their children have been denied their rights under the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Detroit's case may be considered the archetype. Plaintiffs are the Detroit Board of Education and "next friends" of several Detroit school children and the defendant is Michigan's treasurer. In outline, the brief prepared for the plaintiffs reasons that the State of Michigan has assumed and is charged with the responsibility of maintaining and supporting a system of free public school for all the children of the State of Michigan.