Can a school in California where only one fourth-grader is able to read at grade level be violating students’ constitutional guarantee to a basic education?
A lawsuit could get the green light within days to move forward with its claim that the state’s Department of Education is depriving low-income students equal access to learn to read and write. The suit claims to be the first in the United States to seek recognition of the constitutional right to literacy.
Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos will rule by next Tuesday on the state’s petition to dismiss the lawsuit. She heard both parties’ arguments last week in Los Angeles.
Madison has long tolerated disastrous reading results.