In the Atlanta Journal today, a lawsuit has been filed in the Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia against the state-run school system (visit the NCEA website to read the article). The impetus for the suit stems from a lack of choice in public education. The suit includes the language that choice is a constitutional right that applies to education.
“Five decades after the Supreme Court declared ‘separate but equal’ public schools unconstitutional,” the lawsuit says, “the state of Georgia and the rest of the United States are still operating a de facto apartheid system of public education based not on race, but wealth.”
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