Under the Law

Abstract

Three cases decided in July 2018 address states’ responsibility to educate all children. Martinez v. State of New Mexico is the first case in that state to establish a state constitutional right to education. In Cruz-Guzman v. State of Minnesota, the state supreme court found that a court could rule on whether the segregation of schools by race and socioeconomic status violated the previously established right to education. In Gary B. v. Snyder, a federal district court dismissed the claim of a group of Michigan parents that schools’ failure to ensure students were literate represented a violation of their federal rights.