MI has No Legal Obligation to Provide a Quality Public Education, So Says the State Appellate Court

[LovingA2andMI]

In a blow to schoolchildren statewide, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 7 the State of Michigan has no legal obligation to provide a quality public education to students in the struggling Highland Park School District.

"A 2-1 decision reversed an earlier circuit court ruling that there is a “broad compelling state interest in the provision of an education to all children.”

The appellate court said the state has no constitutional requirement to ensure schoolchildren actually learn fundamental skills such as reading — but rather is obligated only to establish and finance a public education system, regardless of quality. Waving off decades of historic judicial impact on educational reform, the majority opinion also contends that “judges are not equipped to decide educational policy.”

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. It seems some are not equipped

to decide law.

Let's start with that "Separate but equal" thing from years ago...

[LovingA2andMI]

2. Agreed!

Some are definitely don't meet any standard to decide law on using a "Justice is Blind" analogy.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Michigan aka New Mississippi.

[LovingA2andMI]

6. Yes indeed.....

[Demeter]

4. And unfortunately, the state lives up to this obligation

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Dismantling Public Education. That's a Race To The Top. You betcha!

[russ1943]

7. This is too sad for words.

Michigan is routinely making national news since Snyder’s inauguration, for all the wrong reasons! Another perspective on the absurd Michigan Appeals Court ruling on November 7, that Michigan has zero responsibility to provide quality public education for the States' children. http://michigancitizen.com/court-rules-michigan-has-no-responsibility-to-provide-quality-public-education/

And this one notes; “now, with Michigan ruling that the state has no business guaranteeing a quality education, be prepared for Walmart or the Koch brothers to be writing Michigan’s curriculum”. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/20/michigan-court-rules-that-state-has-no-obligation-to-provide-children-with-education/