ABSTRACT
Class actions brought by elementary and high school pupils and parents against certain state and county officials concerned with financing of California public school systems for declaratory judgment that California school financing scheme is unconstitutional and for injunctive relief. The Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Robert W. Kenny, J., granted defendants' motion for dismissal after plaintiffs' failure to amend following sustaining of demurrers and the plaintiffs appealed. The Supreme Court, Sullivan, J., held that public school financing system which relies heavily on local property taxes and causes substantial disparities among individual school districts in amount of revenue available per pupil for the districts' educational grants invidiously discriminates against the poor and violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
