Kadrmas v. Dickinson Public Schools

Appellants urge us to hold that the Equal Protection Clause forbids a State to allow some local school boards, but not others, to assess a fee for transporting pupils between their homes and the public schools. Applying well-established equal protection principles, we reject this claim and affirm the constitutionality of the challenged statute.

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North Dakota is a sparsely populated State, with many people living on isolated farms and ranches. One result has *453been that some children, as late as the mid-20th century, were educated in “the one-room school where, in many cases, there [we]re twenty…