I was browsing my library news feeds and came across this headline: "ACLU alleges Michigan school district violated students' 'right to learn to read.'" from the Washington Post. While not necessarily library related, the story does have to do with a major mission of libraries -- literacy.
Basically, a school district in the Detroit area is being sued by the ACLU and some of the students for being passed on without being able to read at the grade level they should be reading. The entire area is doing awful financially, and most of the kids in the district are in poverty.
Read the article and tell me, what do you think?
Part of the problem is that legislatures are notorious for passing laws that look good on paper but failing to provide any means to meet the requirements of the law.
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