SCHOOL DIST. OF LaFARGE v. LINDNER

No. 80-1749-OA.

100 Wis.2d 111 (1981)

301 N.W.2d 196

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LAFARGE, Paul Jacobson and Deanna Ehmann, Petitioners v. Kenneth E. LINDNER, Secretary of the Department of Administration, State of Wisconsin, Department of Administration, State of Wisconsin, Mark E. Musolf, Secretary of the Department of Revenue, State of Wisconsin, Department of Revenue, State of Wisconsin, Barbara Thompson, Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction, Department of Public Instruction, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided February 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioners there were briefs and oral argument by Bruce Meredith, staff counsel, Wisconsin Education Association Counsel.

For the respondents the cause was argued by F. Joseph Sensenbrenner, Jr., assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief were Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Gerald S. Wilcox, assistant attorney general.

Amicus curiae brief was filed by James F. Clark, Kenneth B. Axe and Isaksen, Lathrop, Esch, Hart & Clark of Madison, for Wisconsin Association of School Boards, Inc.


BEILFUSS, C.J.

This matter comes before us as an original action for a declaration of rights. On September 24, 1980, the petitioners, the School District of La Farge and two parents of school-age children from that district, filed a petition for leave to commence this action. We granted the petition on October 29, 1980. The cause is submitted for our determination on the basis of an agreed statement of facts.

This controversy stems from an order of the respondent...

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