Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

After more than 40 years, the federal right to free education for immigrant students finds itself in the crosshairs of conservatives

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par Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University

Texas once had a law that allowed public schools to charge tuition for undocumented immigrant families to send their children to school. The rationale was that taxpayer dollars should not be spent educating children whose families were not in the U.S. legally.

When the Supreme Court struck down the law in 1982, it held that young people have a constitutional right to access education. In its 5-4 decision in Plyler v. Doe, the court stated…

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