A Constitutional Threat to Public Schools Comes Into View
A legal scholar argues that America’s public school system is unconstitutional.

A professor of constitutional law at Columbia University, Philip Hamburger, argues in a recent law review article that education constitutes speech. Compulsory education laws coupled with the financial pressures to attend public school result in a large-scale violation of the First Amendment right to free speech, according to Mr. Hamburger.
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