KING v. STATE

No. 08-2006.

818 N.W.2d 1 (2012)

Rozanne E. KING; Alisha Jane King; Dacie S. Houston, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Skylar Dwayne Ostrander, Chay Cortez Ostrander, and Adlia William Cortez Flood III; Brandy R. Drake, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Logan Genner Luhmann, Susan Maule, Stephanie Maule, and Jacob Maule; Michael Campbell, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of George Campbell and Sophia Campbell; and Laura Campbell, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Christopher Rasso, George Campbell, and Sophia Campbell, Appellants, v. The STATE of Iowa; Chester J. Culver, in His Official Capacity as the Governor of the State of Iowa; The Iowa Department of Education; and Judy Jeffrey, in Her Official Capacity as the Director of the Iowa Department of Education, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas E. Gross , Rebecca A. Brommel and Haley R. Van Loon of Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville and Schoenebaum, P.L.C., Des Moines, for appellants.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Jeanie Kunkle Vaudt , Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.


MANSFIELD, Justice.

A generation ago, in Johnson v. Charles City Community Schools Board of Education, 368 N.W.2d 74, 79 (Iowa 1985), we observed that the "state has a clear right to set minimum educational standards for all its children and a corresponding responsibility to see to it that those standards are honored." Yet we also concluded that a "court is without either the resources or the expertise necessary" to draft...

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