Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

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　In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activistRobert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American andLatino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposalfor a campaign to guarantee a quality education for all children asa constitutional right—a movement that would “transform currentapproaches to educational inequity, all of which have failedmiserably to yield results for our children.” The response waspassionate, and the meeting launched a movement.

　This book—emerging directly from that effort—reports on what hashappened since and calls for a new scale of organizing, legalinitiatives, and public definitions of what a quality education is.Essays include

　· Robert Moses’s historically rooted call for citizens,especially young people, to make the demand for qualityeducation

　· Ernesto Cortés’s view from decades of work organizing Latinocommunities in Texas

　· Charles Payne’s interview with students from the BaltimoreAlgebra Project, who organized to make historic demands on theirdistrict

　· Legal scholar Imani Perry’s nuanced analysis of the prospectsof making a case for quality education as a right guaranteed by theConstitution

　· Perspectives from scholars Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne, andby teachers Alicia Caroll and Kim Parker, who provide examples ofwhat quality education is, describing its goal, and how to guidepractice in the meantime.

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

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