Sonia Sotomayor Gets A School Named In Her Honor

She’s the third female SCOTUS justice to have a public elementary school bearing her name.
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I have often said that equality among people in the United States will not occur until there is equality in the education of all of our children. I am deeply grateful to the many people — and the state is filled with them, as is the audience — who have sponsored and promoted this project and brought it to life.

I know enough Spanish to speak it with family and friends, to write simple messages and to read and enjoy its beauty, but I wish I had been formally educated. The children who will attend this school will be privileged to learn and be proficient in two languages and two cultural experiences. That is an incredibly valuable gift.

— Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in prepared remarks given at the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community School, a public school in Yonkers, New York, that will support students in grades Pre-K to 8. Students attending the Sotomayor School will learn in both English and Spanish on alternating days.

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