Durant v. Department of Education

On Remand

Before: Danhof, C.J., and M. F. Cavanagh and Mackenzie, JJ. M. F. Cavanagh, J.

Plaintiffs petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus, seeking to compel the defendants to fund the Fitzgerald Public Schools in the same proportion as those schools were funded in the fiscal year 1978-1979, pursuant to the so-called Headlee Amendment, Const 1963, art 9, §§ 25-34. We denied mandamus on the basis that the plaintiffs had not exhausted their administrative remedies because they had not presented their claims to the local governmental claims review board under MCL 21.240; MSA 5.3194(610).…