Answer: All kids living in the United States have the right to a free public education. And the Constitution requires that all kids be given equal educational opportunity no matter what their race, ethnic background, religion, or sex, or whether they are rich or poor, citizen or non-citizen.
b. When two independent clauses are closely related to each other and are joined by a conjunctive adverb of two syllables or more, place a semicolon before the conjunctive adverb and a comma after it.