Judicial Intervention in State and Local Public School Curricula

Judicial Intervention in State and Local Public School Curricula

States and local school boards control and regulate public schools. According to the U.S. Constitution’s 10th Amendment, “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution… are reserved to the States respectively.” In fact, the Constitution is silent on education. To this end, in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court observed that “today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local government…