STATE BD. OF ED. v. HOUGHTON LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Docket No. 80686, (Calendar No. 2).

430 Mich. 658 (1988)

425 N.W.2d 80

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION v. HOUGHTON LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Patrick J. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, for the plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Gerald F. Young and Paul J. Zimmer, Assistant Attorneys General, for the intervening plaintiff.

Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, P.C. (by Thomas J. Nordberg and Beverly J. Bonning), for the defendants.

Amicus Curiae:

Linda L. Bruin for Michigan Association of School Boards.


BOYLE, J.

In this case we are asked to decide whether the State Board of Education may, by court order, compel a local board of education to provide 180 days of instruction in a school year.

The Attorney General, as intervening plaintiff-appellant, appeals from the January 21, 1987, decision1 of the Court of Appeals, upholding the order of the Roscommon Circuit Court denying the State...

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