Which of these is not true of the school funding problems in the Texas legislature in the last ten ...

Which of these is not true of the school funding problems in the Texas legislature in the last ten years?
 
  a. Problems in Texas are about educational quality, not funding levels.
 b. Due to a lack of voting by poorer citizens, wealthier citizens are overrepresented in the Texas legislature.
  c. Judicial decisions have forced the legislature to make changes.
 d. The legislature cut property taxes for rich school districts, while increasing state funding for poor school districts.
  e. School funding compromises have fallen apart due to the recent economic recession.

 Q. 2

Recent issues regarding educational segregation in Texas indicate that the issues in segregation have changed. Today, the issues include which of these?
 
  a. Poor, middle-class, and wealthy students often live in different school districts.
 b. Schools are segregated not because of school district policy, but because of economics.
  c. Poor school districts cannot afford adequate schooling for their students.
 d. Economic disparity within and among school districts creates educational inequality.
  e. All of these are educational segregation issues in Texas.

 Q. 3

Historically, inequities in the amount of money available to local school districts in Texas have been the result of _____.
 
  a. discrepancies in the level of state aid allocated to each district
  b. discrepancies in the level of federal aid allocated to each district
  c. wide variations in the value of taxable property among districts
  d. discriminatory policies implemented by the State Board of Education
  e. different financial investment strategies employed by local school boards

 Q. 4

In the case of _____, a state district court judge declared that the system of public education financing in Texas violated the state's constitution.
 
  a. Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby
  b. Brown v. Board of Education
  c. Smith v. Allwright
  d. Beare v. Smith
  e. Texas v. Johnson

 Q. 5

Brown v. Board of Education involved _____.
 
  a. use of the Fourteenth Amendment to strike down school segregation
  b. ending the white primary
 c. striking down Jim Crow laws across the South
 d. protection of freedom of speech for civil rights activists
 e. abortion rights

 Q. 6

The equal protection of the laws clause, which was the basis of the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, is part of the _____ Amendment.
 
  a. First
  b. Fifth
  c. Tenth
  d. Fourteenth
  e. Sixteenth

 Q. 7

Among the state restrictions that violated the civil rights of blacks and Mexican Americans were
 
  a. Jim Crow laws.
  b. Black Codes.
  c. poll taxes.
  d. all of the above
  e. none of the above.

 Q. 8

Which statement regarding Texas's historic position on civil rights is accurate?
 
  a. The domination of Texas by the traditionalist political culture has made it less likely that minorities' civil rights would be protected.
  b. State courts have allowed Jim Crow laws, Black Codes, and poll taxes to exist without intervention.
  c. Texas minorities have relied on federal, not state, courts to protect their civil rights.
  d. All of these are accurate descriptions.
 e. None of these is an accurate description.