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Committee member warns revisiting Plyler v. Doe would harm children’s education and health
Summary
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, a committee member urged preservation of Plyler v. Doe and protections for children’s access to public education, citing research on attendance and academic impacts, public-health concerns and recent federal policy changes.
A member of the House Judiciary Committee warned colleagues that efforts to revisit the Supreme Court’s 1982 decision in Plyler v. Doe would strip thousands of children of access to public education and harm public health and the economy.
The committee member opened by invoking Tom Paine and Thomas Jefferson to frame public education as central to democratic self-government, then cited Plyler v. Doe and the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee. "Plyler did not place an undue financial burden on America," the member said. "Children who are able to go to school, thanks to Plyler, have contributed to the tune of billions of dollars more in state and local income taxes than the cost of their education."
The lawmaker argued current…
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