State Board of Education v. Houghton Lake Community Schools

In this case we are asked to decide whether the State Board of Education may, by court order, compel a local board of education to provide 180 days of instruction in a school year.

The Attorney General, as intervening plaintiff-appellant, appeals from the January 21, 1987, decision 1 of the Court of Appeals, upholding the order of the Roscommon Circuit Court denying the State Board of Education’s request for a writ of mandamus compelling the defendants, Houghton Lake Community Schools and Houghton Lake Board of Education, to provide 180 days of instruction in the 1985-86 school year. The Court…