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Performance Gaps And Opportunities For Growth: Addressing Remote Learning In Nevada, Anna Dreibelbis-Colquitt
Performance Gaps And Opportunities For Growth: Addressing Remote Learning In Nevada, Anna Dreibelbis-Colquitt
BYU Education & Law Journal
Although education is not a fundamental right under the United States Constitution, it is nonetheless deemed as “perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.” The importance of education is reinforced through the Nevada Constitution. Specifically, Article 11 states that “[t]he legislature shall provide for a uniform system of common schools,” which is seen through the public school system. However, this ‘uniform’ system drastically changed two years ago with the surge in online learning.
Indiana's Uniform School System, The Right To Literacy, And Remote Learning In A Pandemic, Jesse Smith
Indiana's Uniform School System, The Right To Literacy, And Remote Learning In A Pandemic, Jesse Smith
BYU Education & Law Journal
The COVID pandemic has undoubtedly exposed new challenges in education. However, the reality is that it has also exposed pre-existing, underlying systemic problems, and exacerbated them to the point that the only responsible thing to do would be to deal with them in earnest. For curricular fees, specifically, permitting schools to charge fees for technology and require their use to access the classroom is running counter to the statutory permissive scheme Indiana has in place, likely past the point of being constitutional. Indiana has shown a willingness in the past to demonstrate that, at least for education, there really is …