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of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu. Ashley Burner is director of the Johns

Hopkins Institute for Educational Policy and associate professor in the school of education

there. She is the author of pluralism and American public education, no one way to school.

She has been with us before on the podcast, and recently she offered a brief to the United States

Supreme Court on an important pending case.

And that is our topic today.

Welcome, Ashley.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Well, let's just get the big question.

First, the introductory question, what is the case?

So the case is that it's particular to New England state where it's not only Maine that has had these regulations, but Maine has 260 school districts and many of them, half of them, do not have secondary schools.

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