Legal Opinion
Board of Education v. BOSTON COMMONWEALTH
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 4, 1982PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
Once again we are faced with a dispute over the financing of the Boston public school system for the school year 1980-1981. See School Comm. of Boston v. Boston, 383 Mass. 693 (1981); Boston Teachers Local 66 v. Boston, 382 Mass. 553 (1981). At issue is whether a judge of the Superior Court properly granted the plaintiffs’ request for injunctive and declaratory relief requiring the city of Boston to finance the public schools adequately for 180 days (see G. L. c. 71, §§ 1 & 4, and 603 Code Mass. Regs. 27.01 [1978]), notwithstanding the exhaustion of the Boston school committee’s appropriation…
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