Dream of a world where everything stupid, contemptible, or phony was also unconstitutional. That’s what the state Supreme Court invited Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher to dream about public education, and this week he delivered in Technicolor.

As constitutional law, it was dreaming too. But no one has ever provided a more incisive analysis of public education, a more brutal indictment, or a more comprehensive policy prescription. Moukawsher’s is the first decision in a school financing lawsuit in Connecticut that begins to see that, contrary to the complaint of the plaintiffs, education’s problems go far beyond any lack of money.

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