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, The 74’s Linda Jacobson — who wrote about just such a campaign in California in November — 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 The 74 and the Reinventing America’s 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’s 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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Some recent coverage of this issue from The 74: 

• Austin: It’s Long Past Time to Put Kids First By Making Education a Civil Right for all Students
  
• Proposed California Ballot Measure Would Give Parents ‘Legal Standing’ to Sue for Better Schools as Right-to-Education Efforts Spread
  
• A Legal Right to Literacy: 10 Kids Sued California for Failing to Teach Them to Read. Could Their Settlement Set a Precedent for Other Struggling Schools?

• Michigan Agrees to Aid Detroit Schools With $100 Million in Dedicated Literacy Funds After Courts Agree With New Legal Theory That Students Have Right to Read

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