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This is terribly sad! Almost satire

>conferred an unseemly advantage on the students who were able to take advantage of it,

Meanwhile private school...

Its all crabs in a bucket. Instead of suggesting that more schools do this to boost education, let's tear town the successful ones and pretend we're a meritocracy.

Amazing! Any articles on that school?

Not that I've been able to find --- it would have been the school local to Columbus AFB in the late 1960s to mid 70s.

The State Supreme Court stuff is my hazy recollection of letters my parents received from other folks who were still living there when the school system was changed.

Looks like other cases were ongoing even in 2002, https://www.cleveland19.com/story/1045614/ohio-supreme-court...

That's quite a different thing though --- this was not a matter of funding (save that there wasn't money set aside to send students who didn't get a college degree with their high school to college after graduation) but of how the school was structured and how students were taught.

That 1960s court ruling would be worth reading, to see how it was rationalized, and for discovery of related legal cases. LexisNexis or an LLM might be able to find it.

The court case should have been late 70s, early 80s --- as it was explained to me, it was ruled as unfair that some children got a college education, while others who graduated from the same school had to pay for college

ChatGPT didn't find any cases, but offered this:

  There were debates about whether military children attending base schools were receiving benefits not available to children in the local civilian school systems. This issue could have come up in various ways, such as in cases where military dependents might have access to college-level classes or subsidized education while local students did not.