The limits of choice: school choice reform and state constitutional guarantees of educational quality
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The right to education under state constitutions may provide adequate remedies to minimize the risks imposed by school choice programs that could result in the failure of some public schools. Market-based programs use competition to encourage improvement in educational quality, but economic forces will lead to skimming and declining enrollments for some public schools that serve low-income communities. States enacting school choice must adequately address how to educate children in these communities. If the program fails to do so, suits can be brought based on the failure to provide constitutionally mandated education.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1996
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A critique of the Bush education proposal
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US President George W. Bush's public education funding proposal for fiscal 2002 is analyzed. Topics include the proposal's plans for standardized testing and private school vouchers. The need for the Supreme Court to recognize the fundamental right to an adequate public education is discussed.
Publication Name: Administrative Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0001-8368
Year: 2001
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Achieving excellence and equal opportunity in education: no conflict of laws
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The author discusses the evolving role of federal government in public elementary and secondary education, beginning in the 1950s. Topics include the influence of the civil rights movement of public education and ongoing efforts to increase federal involvement through government programs.
Publication Name: Administrative Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0001-8368
Year: 2001
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