Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Connecticut Supreme Court issued its ruling in Horton v. Meskill on April 19, 1977. It held that the right to education in Connecticut is so basic and fundamental that any intrusion on the right must be strictly scrutinized. The Court said that public school students are entitled to equal enjoyment of the right to education, and a system of school financing that relied on local property tax revenues without regard to disparities in town wealth and that lacked significant equalizing state support was unconstitutional. It could not pass the test of strict judicial scrutiny.