DEROLPH ET AL., APPELLANTS,
v.
THE STATE OF OHIO ET AL., APPELLEES.
Supreme Court of Ohio.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted September 10, 1996.
Decided March 24, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bricker & Eckler, Nicholas A. Pittner, John F. Birath, Jr., Sue W. Yount, Michael D. Smith and Susan B. Greenberger, for appellants.
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Sutton, State Solicitor, and Christopher M. Culley and Sharon A. Jennings, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellees.
Dinsmore & Shohl, Lawrence A. Kane, Jr., Mark A. VanderLaan, Joel S. Taylor, David K. Mullen and William M. Mattes, Special Counsel for appellees State Superintendent of Public Instruction and State Department of Education.
Ben Espy Co., L.P.A., and Ben E. Espy; Jan Michael Long, urging reversal for amici curiae members of the Ohio House of Representatives Mary Abel, John Bender, Ross Boggs, Dan Brady, Samuel Britton, Jack Cera, Jack Ford, Robert Hagan, David Hartley, William Healy, Troy Lee James, Jerry Krupinski, Lloyd Lewis, Jr., Sean Logan, June Lucas, Mark Mallory, Dan Metelsky, William Ogg, Darrell Opfer, C.J. Prentiss, Tom Roberts, Frank Sawyer, Michael Shoemaker, Betty Sutton, Vernon Sykes, and Charleta Tavares; Ohio Senators Robert Boggs, Robert Burch, James Carnes, Ben Espy, Linda Furney, Leigh Herington, Jeffrey Johnson, Anthony Latell, Jan Michael Long, Rhine McLin, and Alan Zaleski; and U.S. Representatives Louis Stokes, Robert Ney, and Frank Cremeans.
Joan M. Englund, urging reversal for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation, Inc.
Means, Bichimer, Burkholder & Baker Co., L.P.A., and Kimball H. Carey, urging reversal for amici curiae Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Ohio School Boards Association and Ohio Association of School Business Officials.
James A. Ciocia, urging reversal for amicus curiae Cleveland Teachers Union.
Spieth, Bell, McCurdy & Newell Co., L.P.A., and Frederick I. Taft, urging reversal for amici curiae Coalition for School Funding Reform (Bay Village City School District, Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District, Lakewood City School District, and Shaker Heights City School District).
Patrick F. Timmins, Jr., urging reversal for amicus curiae Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools.
David Goldberger and Edward B. Foley, urging reversal for amicus curiae Institute for Democracy in Education.
Goldstein & Roloff and Morris L. Hawk, urging reversal for amici curiae Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators and Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators.
Buckley, King & Bluso, Robert J. Walter and Thomas C. Drabick, Jr., urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE)/AFSCME Local 4, AFL-CIO.
Stewart Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy and Marc J. Jaffy, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio AFL-CIO.
Schnorf & Schnorf Co., L.P.A., David M. Schnorf and Johna M. Bella, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Federation of Teachers.
Susan G. Tobin, urging reversal for amici curiae Ohio Legal Rights Service and Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities.
Berry, Shoemaker & Clark and Kevin Shoemaker, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Professional Staff Union.
Chester, Willcox & Saxbe, John J. Chester and Donald C. Brey, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Governor George Voinovich.
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, P.L.L., and N. Victor Goodman, urging affirmance for amici curiae Stanley J. Aronoff, President of the Ohio Senate, and JoAnn Davidson, Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.
Walter & Haverfield and James E. Betts, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Alliance for Adequate School Funding.
Supreme Court of Ohio.
FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, SR., J.
In 1802, when our forefathers convened to write our state Constitution, they carried within them a deep-seated belief that liberty and individual opportunity could be preserved only by educating Ohio's citizens. These ideals, which spurred the War of Independence, were so important that education was made part of our first Bill of Rights. Section 3, Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution of 1802. Beginning in 1851, our Constitution has required...
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