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Professor Baker Comments on Franklin Township Schools Case for Indianapolis Star
11/07/2014
Pointing to two opinions from the Indiana Supreme Court, Professor Cynthia Baker discussed the arguments in the case to be heard by the high court on November 24, Hoagland v. Franklin Township Community School Corp. The upcoming oral argument is the subject of an article in the Indianapolis Star.
The case is a class action filed by township parents, and the school district superintendent has said her side plans to make the argument that if public school buses are a constitutional right, shouldn’t the state be obligated to fully fund transportation?
Professor Baker pointed to prior high court decisions regarding public education for insights into the upcoming argument.
“What the case will likely come down to is what the state constitution means by mandating tuition-free public schools that are open to all,” the article states. “The meaning of that is being critically explored because of all these attendant and expensive aspects of what it is to educate a public school student today,” Professor Baker says in the story.
Professor Baker is a clinical professor of law and director of IU McKinney’s Program on Law and State Government.
