In the Brown decision the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact they force them in many respects to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
Of all the public services education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy you deal with most social problems and it's morally right.
It is of course further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education medicine and law in journalism literature and art.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people jobs and education.
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream for the environment for privacy rights a woman's right to choose a good public education system.
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.