East Jackson Public Schools v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• provision mandating legislature to “maintain and support a system of free public elementary and secondary schools” grants only a right to an adequate education
• provision mandating legislature to ‘maintain and support a system of free public elementary and secondary schools’ grants only a right to an adequate education
• implicit; clause provides “[t]he legislature shall maintain and support a system of free public elementary and secondary schools as defined by law”
• “School districts and other municipal corporations are creations of the state. Except as provided by the state, they have no existence, no functions, no rights and no powers. They are given no power, nor can any be implied, to defy their creator[.]” (footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).