In 1975, Texas passed a law allowing school districts to exclude undocumented students from free public school. When a district in Tyler enacted such a policy, a group of families sued.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Doe that Texas’ law was unconstitutional and children had a right to public education, regardless of their citizenship status.
Five decades later, at a candidate forum in the same city that gave rise to that landmark ruling, the Republican candidates for Texas attorney general laid out their plans to use the agency to overturn it.
