The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act -- one of its most important decisions of the past decade -- has significant implications for education. The Act’s expansion of Medicaid asked the justices to decide whether Congress could, in effect, require a quid pro quo from states that receive federal dollars, a question with far-reaching implications for all kinds of federal grants, including those in education.

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