Fed Funded Schools Must Teach Constitution Every Sept. 17

If anyone wants to know why I take constitutional issues so seriously, here's your answer: The Constitution and I share the same birthday, September 17 (gifts will be accepted). I also had the pleasure of meeting the late, great Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger at a neighbor's house on Capitol Hill in Washington. His birthday is also on that day. Coincidence or cosmic master plan?

Fed Funded Schools Must Teach Constitution Every Sept. 17: WASHINGTON -- The Constitution long has ensured that Congress can't tell schools what to teach. But that's no longer the case for at least one topic - the Constitution itself.

The Education Department outlined Tuesday how it plans to enforce a little-known provision that Congress passed in 2004: Every school and college that receives federal money must teach about the Constitution on Sept. 17, the day the document was adopted in 1787.