Quality Education as a Civil Right: Reflections, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools.

"A good education is more than a civil right; it is the foundation necessary to sustain our democracy and modern civilization," reflects Ernesto Cortés Jr. in his contribution to Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools. "Without the capacity to engage, question, argue, interpret, and contextualize experiences and encounters, authority is left unchallenged and inndividuals are left open to misdirection — which leaves them prey to the demagogues of hate." Cortés draws on decades of IAF organizing in Latino communities across Texas to argue that quality education must be won through grassroots political power, not granted from above.