Doctrine
3 nodes · kind (ufo)
A normative principle or analytical frame against which the funding system is judged — the constitutional standard of a thorough and efficient system, the distinction between adequacy and equity, local control, the residual-budgeting critique, phantom revenue. It is a Kind because a doctrine’s identity is fixed by its content: adequacy does not become equity under any circumstance. Doctrines exist as nodes so the corpus can answer whether a regime was fair, not only what it paid.
Nodes
| Adequacy | The principle that funding must be sufficient for the education the state itself requires — an absolute standard, measured against a costed requirement rather than against what other districts receive. In Ohio its practical content is a critique of method. |
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| Equity | The principle that a student's resources should not depend on the wealth of the district they happen to live in — a relative standard, measured by dispersion across districts. The older of Ohio's two litigated doctrines, and the one that lost first. |
| Thorough and Efficient | The constitutional standard Article VI, Section 2 lays on the General Assembly. The phrase does two things at once — a quality floor each school must meet, and a uniformity requirement across the state — which is why it has supported opposite holdings on similar facts. |
Properties
What a doctrine may carry.
| Property | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Name | string | The principle's common name |
| Origin | string | Where the principle enters the domain — constitutional text, a decision, or scholarship |
| Formulation | text | The principle stated precisely enough to be applied to a specific regime |
| What is contested | text | What is disputed about the principle, and by whom |
Relationships
The edges this class may enter into. Out is declared by the node itself; in is declared by the node at the other end.
| Relationship | To | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| In tension with out | Doctrine | A principle this one trades against, such that advancing one may cost the other |
| Grounded in out | Legislation | The constitutional or statutory text this principle originates in |
| Invoked by in | Litigation | A case that reasoned from this principle |
| Applied to in | Funding Regime | A regime that has been judged against this principle |
| Made measurable by in | Metric | A computable measure that renders this principle testable |