A Federal Right to Education: Necessary Change to the Foundations of America’s Education System, or No Lawyer Left Behind? [the74million.org]
There isn’t currently a federal right to education. The Supreme Court made that much clear in the 1970s. But should there be? For one side of the debate Thursday at the American Enterprise Institute, guaranteeing a federal right to education is the only way to fix the sinking ship of inequitable American education. For opponents, it’s a “utopian abstraction” that will inevitably result in increased federal meddling in local decisions. The crux of the debate was the Supreme Court’s 1973...