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Disrupting Education Federalism, Kimberly J. Robinson

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The ongoing expansion of federal influence over education in the United States provides a particularly salient time to consider how education federalism should be structured to achieve the nation's education goals. One ofthe nation's unfulfilled and yet essential education goals is to ensure that all students receive equal access to an excellent education. A variety of scholars and, most recently, the federal Equity and Excellence Commission have offered proposals for advancing this goal. By building on this growing momentum for reform,I argue that disrupting the nation's longstanding approach to education federalism-which I define as the balance of power between federal, …

Education & Practice (Newsletter Of The Section On Education Of Lawyer, Virginia State Bar) - V. 23, No. 2 (Spring 2015), Dale Margolin Cecka

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William & Mary Hosts Capital Area Legal Writing Conference, by Laura Killinger, Director of the Legal Practice Program and Professor of the Practice at William & Mary Law School

Reliving Student Experiences at the Legal Writing Conference, by Kristina D. Rutledge, professor of advanced legal writing at Washington & Lee

Chair’s Column, Professor Jim Moliterno of Washington and Lee School of Law

Section’s Website Update

Retired Magistrate Judge B. Waugh Crigler Receives VSB Leadership in Education Award

2015 Annual Meeting

News and Events Around the Commonwealth

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2014-2015 Board of Governors

How Reconstructing Education Federalism Could Fulfill The Aims Of Rodriguez, Kimberly J. Robinson

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In the Rodriguez decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the plaintiffs did not have a right under the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, which required the state of Texas to remedy disparities in funding for schools in high-wealth and low-wealth school districts. One of the principal reasons that the Court rejected the plaintiffs' claims was the need to maintain the current balance of power between the federal and state governments over education. Indeed, the Court acknowledged in Rodriguez that even though all equal protection claims implicate federalism, "it would be difficult to imagine a case having a greater potential impact …