Garfield Heights City School District v. State Board of Education

The majority holds that the Garfield Heights City School District Board of Education has the right to unilaterally reject a transfer of school district territory. The majority is just plain wrong. R.C. 3311.24 authorizes a local school district board of education to “accept” (not to “reject”) a transfer of school district territory. Moreover, stripped of its legal niceties, this case boils down to one thing — regardless of the test of the “present and ultimate good of the pupils concerned” (see Ohio Adm.Code 3301-89-01[F]), the Garfield Heights board of education just does not want, for some…