Michael A. Rebell is a Professor and Executive Director
of the Campaign for Educational Equity at
Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also an
Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School. Rebell
was co-counsel for plaintiffs in the CFE litigation and is currently
co-counsel for plaintiffs in NYSER v. State of New York.
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Federal Court Holds There Is a Fundamental Right to Education Under the U.S Constitution
In a landmark decision issued last week in the Gary B. v. Whitmer case, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held there is a “fundamental right to a basic minimum education” under the U.S. Constitution. The two-to-one ...
Brown v. Board of Education at 65: A Job Still Undone
This month marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. When he exited the Supreme Court building on ...
Major Federal Right to Education Lawsuit Filed in the U.S
Last month, 14 students and parents filed a class action law suit, Cook v. Raimondo, asking the U.S. District Court in the state of Rhode Island to declare that all students in Rhode Island–and all students throughout the United ...
Litigating for the Right to Education in the United States: Part 2
In yesterday’s blog post, I reviewed US right to education litigation at the federal level, and at the state level in New York and New Mexico. In this post, I will consider litigation that has taken place in Kansas, Washington and ...
Litigating for the Right to Education in the United States: Part 1
Although the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1973 that there is no right to education in the federal constitution, over the past 40 years, dozens of state courts have ruled that there is a right to education under their state ...
