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Education

Dec. 29, 2010

Education According to the Court

Reflections on the fate of public education. By Richard M. Mosk, a justice of the California Court of Appeal.


By Richard M. Mosk


A ceremony in honor of the naming of an elementary school after my father, state Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk, caused me to ponder the fate of public education today. I recollected that in 1966, the state Supreme Court struck a blow for public education. I played a small role in that event.


In 1964, I was one of three clerks to state Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner - another being Jerry Brown. At that time most of the rese...

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