In every state in America, lemon laws protect consumers if they’re sold a new car that turns out to be grossly defective.
Big pharma companies and the entire tobacco industry whose false advertisements caused harm get punished with huge fines and penalties.
In sports, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association for deceptively designating events that include biological males as “women’s sports,” causing devastating impacts on women.
What about America’s public education?
With precious few exceptions, American schools are graduating more and more students who are illiterate, innumerate, illogical and ignorant.
International assessments like TIMSS and PISA expose how atrociously American students lag behind, despite high, and still-skyrocketing, public spending.
Two Massachusetts families decided they had finally suffered enough. They took action — with a potentially trailblazing lawsuit.
On Dec. 4, parents Karrie Conley and Michele Hudak filed a state class-action lawsuit against “the creators, publishers, and promoters” of Lucy Calkins’ Reading and Writing Project and of the Classroom curriculum by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.
Named as defendants alongside these author-educators are Heinemann Publishing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Columbia University’s Teachers College.
Previous education-related lawsuits, which have met with mixed…
