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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n 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 \u2014 and the state is filled with them, as is the audience \u2014 who have sponsored and promoted this project and brought it to life.<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014 Justice Sonia Sotomayor<\/a>, in prepared remarks<\/a> given at the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community School<\/a>, 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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n She’s the third female SCOTUS justice to have a public elementary school bearing her name. The post Sonia Sotomayor Gets A School Named In Her Honor appeared first on Above the Law. (Photo by ERIN SCHAFF\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I have often said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":99429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sonia-sotomayor-GettyImages-1232483001-lDzgnt.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"