Believe it or not, the word "education" does not appear a single time in the United States Constitution, and in 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled that America's children are not guaranteed the right to an education either implicitly or explicitly. Each of the fifty states is compelled through their individual state constitutions to provide their residents with a free school system, but as we have seen all too clearly, guaranteeing children access to "free schools" falls far short of providing the kind of first-rate educational opportunity every American child deserves.
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