Editorial: Does the U.S. Constitution guarantee kids the right to be taught how to read? It should (via latimesopinion)
The ability to read and write is fundamental to a basic education, representing two of the traditional “three Rs” of schooling. And now a panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has taken that a step further: Literacy is a necessity for participating in public life and pursuing success. In other words, the panel’s majority wrote last week, a state’s failure to teach kids their ABCs denies students their rights under the U.S. Constitution.
The panel’s 2-1 decision in a case involving Detroit schools will almost certainly get a skeptical reception from the full circuit court or, beyond that, the U.S. Supreme Court, which in recent years has not been particularly sympathetic to appeals for equity in education.
But the Detroit case, also brought by Public Counsel, differed in this key regard: The plaintiffs brought their case in federal, not state, court. Constitutions in every state mandate the free and public education of students, and so it was easier to win an argument that California was violating its own Constitution. The Detroit lawsuit sought a more sweeping decision: that a halfway decent education is a constitutional right in this country.
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