Singelmann v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
February 1984
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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““Under article 12 of the Constitution, section 1, free public schools are part of the educational system of the state. In section 10 of that article it is provided that ‘The Legislature shall provide for the creation and election of parish school boards which shall elect parish superintendents for their respective parishes.’ Pursuant to this mandate, the Legislature of 1922, by Act No. 100, § 17, created a parish school board for each of the parishes of the state and constituted them bodies corporate in law with full power and authority to make rules and regulations for their own government not inconsistent with the rules and regulations of the state board of education. These boards are public corporations and are created for the purpose of administering for the state the public school affairs of their respective parishes. Their functions are purely of a public character. In matters relating to the free public schools of their parishes, they are the governing authorities not only for the parish as a whole, but for each and all such school districts as may be created. They are state agencies, a part of the state government. * * * ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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