Will History Repeat Itself?

 

    

Our Constitution

Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896)

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Equal Educational Opportunity Act (1974)

Education For All Handicapped Children (1975)

Timothy W. vs Rochester, New Hampshire School District

Individuals With Disabilities Act (1990)

Endrew F. vs. Douglas County School District (2017)

 

 

     Just a few of many documents, landmark cases and legislation that fundamentally define public education. They show the evolution of attitudes toward the ideals we hold for public schools. Equal educational opportunity for all. Let us all hold our local school boards, state and federal education officials accountable to maintain this belief, this value, these laws.

 

     We live in a country whose government was established with the very intention of equalizing the power bases of the executive branch (the president), the legislative branch (Congress), and the judicial branch (the courts). We are pretty fortunate to (hopefully) have enduring institutions that will help us weather the political storms brewing.