Missouri Secretary of State Trying to Enshrine Education as a Right in State Constitution
“Supporters say the proposal is about accountability and ensuring every Missouri student has access to well-funded public education.”
A judge has stepped in here to force clarification on certain language.
Campus Reform reports:
Measure to enshrine education as right in state constitution challenged as ‘deceptive and prejudicial’
A Cole County judge has dealt a blow to Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, ordering him to rewrite the ballot summary for an education-focused constitutional amendment after finding his original language misleading and legally unfounded.
The proposed amendment would add a brief phrase to the Missouri Constitution making education a “fundamental right” and obligating the state to fund “adequate, thorough, and uniform high-quality free public schools.” But Hoskins’ ballot summary warned that the amendment could eliminate scholarship programs and restrict support for alternatives to public education.
Judge Christopher Limbaugh struck down the summary according to The Missouri Independent, ruling that Hoskins’ language overstated potential consequences.
Limbaugh noted that claims of lost scholarships or banned school choice options are speculative at best and would depend on future court rulings, not the amendment itself.
The Missouri Right to Education Initiative, which backs the amendment, accused Hoskins of injecting partisan framing into a nonpartisan measure. Supporters say the proposal is about accountability and ensuring every Missouri student has access to well-funded public education.
The initiative called Hoskins’ measure “deceptive and prejudicial.”
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Don’t do this.
Arizona has had this in its constitution since statehood. It’s caused no end of trouble.
Section 6. The university and all other state educational institutions shall be open to students of both sexes, and the instruction furnished shall be as nearly free as possible. The legislature shall provide for a system of common schools by which a free school shall be established and maintained in every school district for at least six months in each year, which school shall be open to all pupils between the ages of six and twenty-one years.
“Education” in today’s perverse system means brainwashing to leftist and communist ideology. It is not a right. It is a cancer.
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