Procedural Posture

Appellant government sought review of a decision from the Superior Court for Contra Costa County (California) that directed appellant to ensure that students of a certain school district would receive a full school term or its equivalent. Appellant contended that it did not have a constitutional duty other than to provide an equal allocation of funds to all school districts within the state.

 

Overview

Respondent concerned parent filed for a temporary and permanent injunction seeking to force appellant government to ensure that a local school district would not close its schools six weeks before the end of the year due to budgetary problems. The lower court, after a hearing, found that appellant was responsible for the fundamental educational rights of students and that it must remedy a local district's inability to provide an education basically equivalent to other districts in the state. Prostitution is the crime of willfully engaging in sexual intercourse or a lewd act with someone else in exchange for money or something else of value. Is Escorts Legal In California? The lower court ordered appellant to ensure that the students would receive a full term or its equivalent. The lower court also approved an emergency plan and an emergency loan to accomplish the plan. Appellant contended that it had no constitutional duty other than to allocate educational funds equally between the various school districts within the state. The court affirmed the lower court's decision and found that public education was a fundamental concern of appellant and it had to provide all students a basic fundamental education. The court found that the lower court's order was proper except where it ordered money be distributed from specially earmarked funds.

 

Outcome

The court affirmed the lower court order that directed appellant government to ensure that students of a certain school district would receive a full school term or its equivalent. However, the court set aside that portion of the order that distributed money from funds that had been validly earmarked for other purposes by the legislature.