07
January 2022
Past Event
Virtual Event | Parents, Public Education, and the First Amendment

Virtual Event | Parents, Public Education, and the First Amendment

Past Event
Online Only
January 07, 2022
Children use electronic tablets to complete online schoolwork at home. (Getty Images)
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Children use electronic tablets to complete online schoolwork at home. (Getty Images)
07
January 2022
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Philip Hamburger

Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Columbia University

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Harold Furchtgott-Roth

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Economics of the Internet

This event will premiere on this page at 10:00 a.m. EST, Friday, January 7. Register for the event here

For nearly two years, millions of parents have watched as their children engaged in mandatory remote learning. Rising dissatisfaction with politicized curricula provoked opposition from parents, prompting some politicians to bluntly declare that parents should have no role in determining what children are taught in public schools. But if education is speech, can government officials compel what is taught and not taught?

Join Hudson Institute’s Harold Furchtgott-Roth and Professor Philip Hamburger for a discussion on the constitutional frailties of public education.

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