California Teachers Assn. v. Board of Education

Appellants appeal from a judgment denying their petition for writ of mandate and application for injunctive relief in their action against the Glendale Unified School District (the district) in which they sought to have the district cease supporting a tuition-charging summer school and to have the district establish a. free summer school program as a part of the entire education program of the district.

The complaint filed in the action states four causes of action, all bottomed on the same facts concerning the summer school program conducted at certain school sites in the district. The first cause of action sought injunctive relief, alleging that appellant students of the district have been deprived of their statutory and constitutional rights to a free district-operated summer school; the second cause of action sought a writ of mandate to compel the district to conduct a free summer school, based generally on the same factual allegations; the third cause of action is again based upon the same allegations of fact, and seeks the issuance of a writ of mandate commanding defendants to operate the summer school on the ground that the agreement hereafter mentioned between…