This provocative book is a challenge to the economic structure of American public education, which has historically offered better public education to families residing in school districts with higher property values. Lawyers Coons, Clune, and Sugarman analyze and expose the discrimination by wealth inherent in existing state systems of school finance, developing a model for testing the effects of wealth variations. Not satisfied with delineating the problem, the authors propose a solution based upon manipulation of state and local taxes—a hypothetical but workable plan which they have termed "power equalizing." A final section of the volume demonstrates that the intervention of the judiciary is the primary hope for change.