City of Worcester v. Governor

In this case we consider whether various statutes and administrative rules and regulations dealing with public education are “unfunded local mandates” within the meaning of G. L. c. 29, § 27C (1992 ed.). That statute, known as the “local mandates” law, is a portion of Proposition IVi, which is a tax limitation measure that the voters adopted as c. 580 of the Acts of 1980 under the initiative process of the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n v. Secretary of the Commonwealth, 384 Mass. 209, 212, 216 (1981). The relevant provisions of G. L. c. 29, § 27C, are as…