Derek W. Black, Law Professor at the University of South Carolina, recently published a piece on the new effort to establish a federal constitutional right to education, led in part by Michael A. Rebell of TC’s Center for Educational Equity:

“A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This fight has been a long time coming and is now suddenly at full steam.

In 1973, plaintiffs in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez argued that school funding inequities violated the right to education. The Supreme Court rejected education as a fundamental right under the federal Constitution, leaving funding inequalities in Texas and elsewhere completely untouched. For more than 40 years, no one even dared to directly challenge Rodriguez’s conclusion in court. Now, in just two years, four different legal teams and plaintiff groups have done just that. But this time, they are shifting their arguments away from just claims about money. They are focusing on educational quality, literacy and learning outcomes.”

Source : http://theconversation.com/fight-for-federal-right-to-education-takes-a-new-turn-108322