Salazar v. Eastin

Opinion

WERDEGAR, J.

Education Code section 39807.51 authorizes school districts to charge nonindigent parents and guardians a portion of the cost of transporting their children to school. We decided in Arcadia Unified School Dist. v. State Dept, of Education (1992) 2 Cal.4th 251 [5 Cal.Rptr.2d 545, 825 P.2d 438] (Arcadia) that section 39807.5 is capable of being applied without violating the state Constitution’s free school (Cal. Const., art. IX, § 5) or equal protection (Cal. Const., art. I, § 7, subd. (a)) clauses. (Arcadia, supra, 2 Cal.4th at p. 267.)

When we granted review in Arcadia, the…