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Judge rules against students seeking better civics education

by Mark Pratt
| October 14, 2020 11:30 AM

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of Rhode Island school children demanding a better civics education in the nation's public schools, but in the same decision praised the students for bringing attention to the issue and lamented the delicate state of American democracy.

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