Board of Education of Chicago v. Alexander

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a challenge to the implementation of Chapter 1 of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Chapter 1), as amended by 20 U.S.C. §§ 2701-27(1988). The Act provides federal funding for supplementary educational opportunities for educationally deprived schoolchildren and contains what the district court described as an “equal expenditure mandate” for students in public and private schools based upon the number of children served. Mem. Op. at 14; see also 20 U.S.C. § 2727(a). Specifically at issue in this litigation, is a regulation which…