Legal Opinion
Lewis E. v. Spagnolo
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided April 15, 1999No. 83382PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bilandic
In this appeal, this court is once again asked to enter the arena of Illinois public school policy. A class of schoolchildren residing in East St. Louis School District 189 challenges the adequacy of the education being provided to them in District 189 schools. We now reaffirm our recent holding in Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar, 174 Ill. 2d 1 (1996), that questions relating to the quality of a public school education are for the legislature, not the courts, to decide.
The plaintiffs are a putative class of school-age children residing in East St. Louis School District 189 (the…
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