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 decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez. Justices decided, 5-4, that there is no fundamental constitutional right to education, and that the system of funding schools through property taxes did not violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection clause, even if it resulted in inequitable funding.
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