DEPARTMENT OF ED. v. SCH. BD. OF COLLIER CTY.

No. 56570.

394 So.2d 1010 (1981)

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION and the State Board of Education, Appellants, v. The SCHOOL BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY, Florida et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Little, Gen. Counsel, State Bd. of Ed., Tallahassee, for appellants.

James H. Siesky, Naples, for appellees.

Larry Levy of Dickinson, Levy & Taylor, Tallahassee, and Louis F. Ray, Jr. and Robert W. Kievit, Pensacola, for Escambia County School Bd., amicus curiae.

Douglas K. Sands, Stuart, for School Bd. of Martin County, amicus curiae.

Talbot D'Alemberte of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, and Sharyn L. Smith, House of Representatives, Tallahassee, for Hyatt Brown, amicus curiae.


OVERTON, Justice.

This appeal concerns the constitutionality of a condition in the 1978-79 appropriations bill guaranteeing a minimum increase of 7.25 percent in school funding for all counties except those counties that have a millage value per student of more than twenty percent over the statewide average.1

The School Board of Collier County, one of four counties2 excluded from this 7.25

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