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Rhode Island Right to an Adequate Education Amendment (2022)
| Rhode Island Right to an Adequate Education Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Constitutional rights and Education | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Rhode Island Right to an Adequate Education Amendment was not on the ballot in Rhode Island as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.[1]
The amendment would have added language to the state constitution "to guarantee an equitable, adequate and meaningful education to each child."[2]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article XII, Rhode Island Constitution
The measure would have amended section 1 of Article XII of the state constitution. The following underlined text would have been added, and struck-through text would have been deleted:[2]
Text of Section 1:
Duty of General Assembly to Promote Schools and Libraries Fundamental right to a public education and the duty to promote public libraries
The diffusion of knowledge, as well as of virtue among the people, being essential to the preservation of their rights and liberties, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to promote public schools and public libraries, and to adopt all means which it may deem necessary and proper to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education and public library services. In furtherance of the duty to establish and maintain a system of free public schools, it shall additionally be the duty of the general assembly and the state to guarantee an equitable, adequate and meaningful education to each child.
Text of Section 2:
Perpetual School Fund
The money which now is or which may hereafter be appropriated by law for the establishment of a permanent fund for the support of public schools, shall be securely invested and remain a perpetual fund for that purpose. Judicial enforcement. –
This article shall be judicially enforceable. Any person or entity injured or threatened with any injury because of any noncompliance with its provisions shall be entitled to bring an action in Superior Court to enforce these provisions and to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief for any violation thereof.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Rhode Island Constitution
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a simple majority vote is required in both the Rhode Island State Senate and the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
This amendment was introduced as Senate Joint Resolution 205 on Februar 10, 2021. On June 30, 2021, the state Senate passed SJR 205 in a vote of 38-0. The amendment did not receive a vote by the House before the legislature adjourned.[1]
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rhode Island State Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 205," accessed July 1, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rhode Island State Legislature, "SJR 205 Text," accessed July 1, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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