Originally Posted by roachboy

if oppurtunities are accessed largely via education and education is unevenly distributed, then why would it not make sense to address that uneven distribution? school funding should not be controlled at the local level--it should be distributed equally across all communities by the state.
without something like that, there is no plausible "level playing field" argument to be made.
without some kind of "level playing field"--at least in terms of educational opportunities---the idea of eliminating one of the few legal attempts to address anything about systematic racial and economic discrimination seems a poor one.