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Mercury News: California vaccine legislation spurs legal debate over right to education

by Tracy Seipel
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by Tracy Seipel

SACRAMENTO — California’s Constitution spells out the right to a free public education, and lawmakers have fortified that guarantee over the years by safeguarding students against discrimination and inequality in the classroom.

But now a debate over that protected access to an education has surfaced in the most contentious legislative battle in Sacramento this year: Does one student’s right to an education trump another student’s right to stay healthy?

That question looms over Senate Bill 277, a controversial proposal that would tighten the requirements that all children be vaccinated to attend a California school.

Read the rest of the story on Mercury News.
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