Educational Equity Educational equity is a federally mandated right of all students to have equal opportunity to classes, facilities, and educational programs no matter what their national origin, race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, first language, or other distinguishing characteristic. In upholding educational equity, educational institutions are required to provide equal opportunity for all students to ensure equal education. For example, students with disabilities have admittance to education programs. http://www.education.com/definition/educational-equity/ access You can’t just choose what you are going to mean by “educational equality” or “educational equity”. These are moral terms, and they need to be defined by reference to our best moral understandings. I think the radical version of the principle of educational equality is best supported by one of the moral reasons that we should care about equality, which is simply that we think that it is unfair of society to set things up so that some people’s lives will go worse than those of others despite the fact that they are not responsible for doing anything that makes their lives go worse. Society doles out the goods that it produces very unequally, and makes education one of the key instruments for succeeding in the competition for them, so when educational success is dependent on factors for which the person bears no responsibility that is, in itself, unfair.