Watch: Education Experts & Student Advocates Explore America’s Growing Movement for a Constitutional Right to a Quality Education
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A movement to create a constitutional right to a quality public education is gaining momentum in several states. Wednesday afternoon, at a special 1 p.m. webinar, 蜜桃影视鈥檚 Linda Jacobson 鈥� who wrote about just such a campaign in California in November 鈥� will be part of an elite panel of experts discussing the potential impact a constitutional right could have in closing racial and economic achievement gaps in America.
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Sponsored by 蜜桃影视 and the Reinventing America鈥檚 Schools project of the Progressive Policy Institute, the online panel will also include former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Alan Page, former Minnesota Supreme Court justice; Ben Austin of Education Civil Rights Now; and Dr. Pedro Noguera of the University of Southern California. Curtis Valentine, co-director of Reinventing America鈥檚 Schools, will moderate. This will be an important conversation; join us at 1 p.m. Eastern.
You can watch the panelists talk about this fascinating subject right here when the event starts.
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- Proposed California Ballot Measure Would Give Parents 鈥楲egal Standing鈥� to Sue for Better Schools as Right-to-Education Efforts Spread
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