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PARENTS HAD STANDING TO BRING A MANDAMUS ACTION SEEKING A SOUND BASIC EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, HOWEVER MANDAMUS LIES ONLY FOR GOVERNMENT ACTIONS WHICH ARE MANDATORY, NOT THE DISCRETIONARY ACTIONS SOUGHT BY THE PETITION HERE (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department the petitioners, parents of children in the East Ramapo Central School District, had standing to bring an Article 78 (mandamus) proceeding seeking to enforce the children’s constitutional right to a sound basic education, but the petition must be dismissed because mandamus lies only for mandatory, not discretionary, actions:

… [P]etitioners have sufficiently alleged a threatened harm to the children’s constitutional right to receive a sound basic education based upon respondents’ alleged failure to take corrective action as identified in the petition’s cited reports … .

Notwithstanding the foregoing, we conclude that the petition was properly dismissed. Mandamus to compel is “an extraordinary remedy that lies only to compel the performance of acts which are mandatory, not discretionary, and only when there is a clear legal right to the relief sought” … . It is beyond cavil that students are entitled to a sound basic education (see NY Const art XI). The manner in which such goal is achieved, however, involves discretionary decisions by respondents … . As such, to the extent that petitioners seek to compel respondents to implement specific recommendations set forth in the reports cited in the petition — an act involving “the exercise of reasoned judgment which could typically produce different acceptable results”… — they are not entitled to such relief. Matter of Curry v New York State Educ. Dept., 2018 NY Slip Op 05393, Third Dept 7-19-18

EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW (PARENTS HAD STANDING TO BRING A MANDAMUS ACTION SEEKING A SOUND BASIC EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, HOWEVER MANDAMUS LIES ONLY FOR GOVERNMENT ACTIONS WHICH ARE MANDATORY, NOT THE DISCRETIONARY ACTIONS SOUGHT BY THE PETITION HERE (THIRD DEPT))/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW, PARENTS HAD STANDING TO BRING A MANDAMUS ACTION SEEKING A SOUND BASIC EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, HOWEVER MANDAMUS LIES ONLY FOR GOVERNMENT ACTIONS WHICH ARE MANDATORY, NOT THE DISCRETIONARY ACTIONS SOUGHT BY THE PETITION HERE (THIRD DEPT))/CIVIL PROCEDURE (MANDAMUS, EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW, PARENTS HAD STANDING TO BRING A MANDAMUS ACTION SEEKING A SOUND BASIC EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, HOWEVER MANDAMUS LIES ONLY FOR GOVERNMENT ACTIONS WHICH ARE MANDATORY, NOT THE DISCRETIONARY ACTIONS SOUGHT BY THE PETITION HERE (THIRD DEPT))/MANDAMUS (EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW, PARENTS HAD STANDING TO BRING A MANDAMUS ACTION SEEKING A SOUND BASIC EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN, HOWEVER MANDAMUS LIES ONLY FOR GOVERNMENT ACTIONS WHICH ARE MANDATORY, NOT THE DISCRETIONARY ACTIONS SOUGHT BY THE PETITION HERE (THIRD DEPT))

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