Board of Education v. Nyquist

I believe the sad record of this case demonstrates that in material manner the public school system of New York State, to which falls responsibility for the education of well over three million children, does not rise to the level dictated by a realistic reading of the State constitutional mandate for the “maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated” (NY Const, art XI, § 1 [emphasis added]).

Justice L. Kingsley Smith of the State Supreme Court, after presiding over the 122-day trial at which this matter was exhaustively…