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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCourt rules Michigan has no responsibility to provide quality public education
I cannot even begin to describe how much this disgusts me.
DETROIT In a blow to schoolchildren statewide, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 7 the State of Michigan has no legal obligation to provide a quality public education to students in the struggling Highland Park School District.
A 2-1 decision reversed an earlier circuit court ruling that there is a broad compelling state interest in the provision of an education to all children. The appellate court said the state has no constitutional requirement to ensure schoolchildren actually learn fundamental skills such as reading but rather is obligated only to establish and finance a public education system, regardless of quality. Waving off decades of historic judicial impact on educational reform, the majority opinion also contends that judges are not equipped to decide educational policy.
This ruling should outrage anyone who cares about our public education system, said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the American Civil Liberties of Michigan. The court washes its hands and absolves the state of any responsibility in a district that has failed and continues to fail its children.
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Court rules Michigan has no responsibility to provide quality public education (Original Post)
Veilex
Nov 2014
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belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)1. one more brick removed
merrily
(45,251 posts)2. Yet, education is mandatory.
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)3. Someone in Michigan should use that as justifacation for not paying the
proportion of their taxes that goes to education and see how far it gets them. Fucking courts, sometimes.
elleng
(130,974 posts)4. Discussed earlier.
enough
(13,259 posts)5. State by state. This is how we are going down.
Michigan, of all states.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)6. Race To The Top
QuebecYank
(147 posts)7. If a quality public education isnt an obligation of the State...
Then perhaps, school taxes shouldn't be an obligation of the taxpayers, who are paying to employ hundreds of teachers, as well as other workers.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)8. We are no better than Mexico. ~nt
spanone
(135,844 posts)9. so ....how stupid do we wish this country to become?
good god