public education funding

A growing number of conservative leaders are pushing states to upend the long-standing U.S. constitutional right to free public education for children, regardless of immigration status. Alabama tried to enforce a state law to keep undocumented migrant children from public schooling, but agreed to a legal settlement on the matter and the law was blocked.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Officials supporting a move to raise property taxes to improve Montgomery’s troubled public schools say defeat could endanger the…