Durant v. State Board of Education

I respectfully dissent. I do not here challenge the majority’s conclusion regarding the so-called Headlee Amendment, Const 1963, art 9, §§ 25-34, although I cannot fully agree with their analysis. Rather, I write separately to challenge the majority’s explication, or lack of explication, of Const 1963, art 8, § 2, the pertinent provisions of the School Code of 1976, MCL 380.1 et seq.; MSA 15.4001 et seq., and the school aid formula, MCL 388.1621; MSA 15.1919(921).

Const 1963, art 8, § 2, provides in part:

The legislature shall maintain and support a *397system of free public elementary and…