California Court of Appeal

In suit to compel defendants Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Board of Education, and California Department of Education to reinstate onsite monitoring of school district compliance with state and federal standards in programs benefiting educationally disadvantaged students, and a court mandate to develop onsite monitoring, orders denying plaintiffs' motion for peremptory writ of mandate and granting summary judgment for defendants is affirmed, where: 1) defendants have neither violated ministerial duties nor abused their discretion; 2) the suspension of onsite monitoring was not an abuse of discretion by the Superintendent; and 3) the temporary suspension of onsite monitoring, the change in selection criteria, the redesign of the monitoring system, and the reduction in the number of districts subject to onsite monitoring in a given year were decisions that were not made arbitrarily or capriciously, and were not unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/09/2013
• Published 01/09/2013

Judges

• LAMBDEN

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel