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Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding for education of undocumented immigrant children in the United States and an independent school district's attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. [1]
This week marks the 40th anniversary of Plyler v Doe, the Supreme Court case ensuring undocumented children have access to a basic education.
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented immigrant children. The case simultaneously struck down a municipal school district's attempt to charge such immigrants an annual $1,000 tuition fee to compensate for state funding.
In 1982, Powell joined the 5–4 majority opinion in Plyler v. Doe holding that a Texas law forbidding illegal immigrant children from public education was unconstitutional. [40] Powell had a mixed record in deciding cases, but joined the Court's four liberal Justices to declare the law unconstitutional. Powell was the deciding vote in Bowers v.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday said his administration may challenge a Supreme Court ruling that states must provide free public education to all children, including undocumented immigrants.
This was the case even in the Tyler, Texas school system, which had fought and lost the original Plyler case more than a decade before. A more recent poll from Arizona put support for Plyler at 76% among public school teachers.) [7] Several teachers unions said they would refuse to enforce the amendment. The International Union of Police ...
In Plyler v. Doe (1982) the Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute denying free public education to illegal immigrants as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because discrimination on the basis of illegal immigration status did not further a substantial state interest. The Court reasoned that illegal aliens ...
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), [e] involved children who were not "legally admitted" into the United States and their rights to public education. This case did not explicitly address the question of babies born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents; the children dealt with in the case were born outside the U.S. and had entered ...