Tag: Stephen Sugarman
Education choice advocates mourn death of progress pioneer Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D. Sugarman, a longtime professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and a progressive icon of the education choice movement, died Dec. 26 after a four-year battle with kidney cancer. He was 79. News of his death brought tributes from allies in the school choice movement,[Read More…]
Union asks judge to lift stay on reopenings ruling, revenues recovering, safety pledge and more
podcastED: SUFS president Doug Tuthill interviews education choice icon Stephen Sugarman: Part 3
In the last of a three-part podcast series, Tuthill and Berkeley law professor Sugarman discuss the landmark Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue Supreme Court decision. The June 2020 decision made it clear that a state cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding from a program created by the state[Read More…]
Reopening lawsuit continues, DOE offers districts guidance on COVID cases, PPE help needed and more
PodcastED: SUFS president Doug Tuthill interviews education choice icon Stephen Sugarman: Part 2
On this episode, Tuthill continues his conversation with education choice pioneer Stephen Sugarman of Berkeley Law School. The two discuss Sugarman’s 2017 article in the Journal of Law and Religion in which Sugarman argues that prohibiting faith-based schools from becoming charter schools is unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.[Read More…]
Hillsborough’s $23 million risk, children infection growth, lawsuit hearing, budget cuts and more
DeVos pathos
The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government.” — G.K. Chesterton, “The Man Who Was Thursday” Our media rightly portray Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as enemy to our ancient order of officially branded “public”[Read More…]