Dady v. Rochester School Board

The question we are asked to decide is whether the Michigan Handicappers’ Civil Rights Act (HCRA) requires the special education program of a public school district to render "medical” services to a handicapped child when such care is a condition of the child’s ability to attend the program.

The trial court decided in the negative, and defendants’ motion for summary judgment was granted pursuant to GCR 1963, 117.2(1).

Challenges by the handicapped to their exclusion from public education are recognized in the proposition set forth in Brown v Board of Education:

"* * * [education] is a principal…