Joshua Weishart
@joshuaweishart.bsky.social
Dad to school kids, husband to school teacher, professor to law students. Focused on education rights
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Had the privilege to attend this timely and thoughtful symposium today and came away even more convinced that there's a larger project we can and should be undertaking collectively in these times.
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Had the privilege to attend this timely and thoughtful symposium today and came away even more convinced that there's a larger project we can and should be undertaking collectively in these times.
Sound familiar?
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edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sound familiar?
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
Far too many Americans are indifferent about this transition to autocracy because our erstwhile democracy was not democratic enough to guarantee their real freedom to live a fulfilling life and they yet fail to appreciate that their lives will be far worse under autocratic rule.
October 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Far too many Americans are indifferent about this transition to autocracy because our erstwhile democracy was not democratic enough to guarantee their real freedom to live a fulfilling life and they yet fail to appreciate that their lives will be far worse under autocratic rule.
Spoken to loud applause at a teacher convention...in 1932, Germany
September 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Spoken to loud applause at a teacher convention...in 1932, Germany
Memes can't be treason, I guess
September 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Memes can't be treason, I guess
I don't think distribution of educational opportunity & outcomes exactly tracks the "actual" distribution of wealth. But the more they succeed in privatizing education, the more grossly unfair that chart will become as well.
Can we approximate a fairer yet still imbalanced "ideal"? Yes. Will we?
Can we approximate a fairer yet still imbalanced "ideal"? Yes. Will we?
August 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don't think distribution of educational opportunity & outcomes exactly tracks the "actual" distribution of wealth. But the more they succeed in privatizing education, the more grossly unfair that chart will become as well.
Can we approximate a fairer yet still imbalanced "ideal"? Yes. Will we?
Can we approximate a fairer yet still imbalanced "ideal"? Yes. Will we?
Also not a "pause" or "withholding" as I saw reported today.
Black's Law Dictionary definitions:
Black's Law Dictionary definitions:
July 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Also not a "pause" or "withholding" as I saw reported today.
Black's Law Dictionary definitions:
Black's Law Dictionary definitions:
Instead of celebrating independence from tyranny, too many this 4th will revel in our independence from each other- instigated by would-be tyrants.
Isolating, individualistic freedom leaves us discontent & unkind.
The freedom we yearn for is not Independence, but INTERdependence
bit.ly/3hM254N
Isolating, individualistic freedom leaves us discontent & unkind.
The freedom we yearn for is not Independence, but INTERdependence
bit.ly/3hM254N
July 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Instead of celebrating independence from tyranny, too many this 4th will revel in our independence from each other- instigated by would-be tyrants.
Isolating, individualistic freedom leaves us discontent & unkind.
The freedom we yearn for is not Independence, but INTERdependence
bit.ly/3hM254N
Isolating, individualistic freedom leaves us discontent & unkind.
The freedom we yearn for is not Independence, but INTERdependence
bit.ly/3hM254N
The risks of universal private school choice programs www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
July 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The risks of universal private school choice programs www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Look at this test, there's no limiting principle containing this parental veto.
Think science and math curricula are immune? I don't.
Think science and math curricula are immune? I don't.
June 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Look at this test, there's no limiting principle containing this parental veto.
Think science and math curricula are immune? I don't.
Think science and math curricula are immune? I don't.
This thoroughly correct decision comes less than a week after the 71 anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, so this is my favorite part:
May 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This thoroughly correct decision comes less than a week after the 71 anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, so this is my favorite part:
So, we should celebrate #BollingvSharpe but with a profound sense of discontent because 68 years after those 11 Black teens successfully sued to desegregate that DC middle school, not a single White student attends it today.
10/n
10/n
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So, we should celebrate #BollingvSharpe but with a profound sense of discontent because 68 years after those 11 Black teens successfully sued to desegregate that DC middle school, not a single White student attends it today.
10/n
10/n
Thus, the joint holding of #BrownvBoard & #BollingvSharpe: segregated schools deprive all children—White & Black alike—of equal educational freedom, the freedom to become equal citizens and learn in democratic settings that are inclusive, open to all, and participatory.
9/n
9/n
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thus, the joint holding of #BrownvBoard & #BollingvSharpe: segregated schools deprive all children—White & Black alike—of equal educational freedom, the freedom to become equal citizens and learn in democratic settings that are inclusive, open to all, and participatory.
9/n
9/n
But #BollingvSharpe’s central holding that segregation constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of educational freedom cannot be controverted: segregation is not reasonably related to any legitimate governmental objective.
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8/n
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
But #BollingvSharpe’s central holding that segregation constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of educational freedom cannot be controverted: segregation is not reasonably related to any legitimate governmental objective.
8/n
8/n
Chief Justice Earl Warren came close in #BollingvSharpe to recognizing education as “a fundamental liberty guaranteed under the Due Process Clause,” omitting that language only to preserve a unanimous decision.
(Just think how close we came to US constitutional right to education)
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(Just think how close we came to US constitutional right to education)
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May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Chief Justice Earl Warren came close in #BollingvSharpe to recognizing education as “a fundamental liberty guaranteed under the Due Process Clause,” omitting that language only to preserve a unanimous decision.
(Just think how close we came to US constitutional right to education)
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(Just think how close we came to US constitutional right to education)
6/n
The Supreme Court agreed. In #BollingvSharpe, the Court held that racial segregation in the DC public schools arbitrarily deprived the Black teens “of their liberty in violation of the Due Process Clause.”
5/n
5/n
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Supreme Court agreed. In #BollingvSharpe, the Court held that racial segregation in the DC public schools arbitrarily deprived the Black teens “of their liberty in violation of the Due Process Clause.”
5/n
5/n
“The basic question here is one of liberty,” their attorney concluded in oral argument before SCOTUS, “and under liberty, under the due process clause, you cannot deal with it as a quantum of treatment, substantially equal. You either have liberty or you do not.”
4/n
4/n
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“The basic question here is one of liberty,” their attorney concluded in oral argument before SCOTUS, “and under liberty, under the due process clause, you cannot deal with it as a quantum of treatment, substantially equal. You either have liberty or you do not.”
4/n
4/n
When 11 Black teens were denied admission to a “spare-no expense,” all-White DC middle school in 1950, they took their case all the way to the Supreme Court.
But they had a problem: They were DC residents, so the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantee did not apply.
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But they had a problem: They were DC residents, so the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantee did not apply.
2/n
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
When 11 Black teens were denied admission to a “spare-no expense,” all-White DC middle school in 1950, they took their case all the way to the Supreme Court.
But they had a problem: They were DC residents, so the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantee did not apply.
2/n
But they had a problem: They were DC residents, so the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantee did not apply.
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Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of the celebrated Brown v. Board of Education decision.
But few know about the other anti-segregation case decided the same day, Bolling v. Sharpe.
What was it about and why should you care?
A thread. 1/n
But few know about the other anti-segregation case decided the same day, Bolling v. Sharpe.
What was it about and why should you care?
A thread. 1/n
May 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yesterday was the 71st anniversary of the celebrated Brown v. Board of Education decision.
But few know about the other anti-segregation case decided the same day, Bolling v. Sharpe.
What was it about and why should you care?
A thread. 1/n
But few know about the other anti-segregation case decided the same day, Bolling v. Sharpe.
What was it about and why should you care?
A thread. 1/n
Last day of teaching in my first academic year at Suffolk Law.
"It's worth fixing"...my parting words to my Con Law class. 🙏
"It's worth fixing"...my parting words to my Con Law class. 🙏
April 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Last day of teaching in my first academic year at Suffolk Law.
"It's worth fixing"...my parting words to my Con Law class. 🙏
"It's worth fixing"...my parting words to my Con Law class. 🙏
Epitaph: "The life of the law....has been...[an] experience."
April 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Epitaph: "The life of the law....has been...[an] experience."
Sotomayor with a fittingly somber tone in dissent
April 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sotomayor with a fittingly somber tone in dissent