Stuart v School District No 1 of Village of Kalamazoo?

Answer 1

1.8 Kalamazoo Case of 1874

Another historical event that altered the course of education occurred in the latter part

of the nineteenth century in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The "Kalamazoo Case of 1874," as it

is popularly known, established a legal system of taxation for funding secondary education.

As was indicated earlier in this chapter, taxation had been approved over two hundred

years earlier for elementary education in Massachusetts. The decision rendered by the

Michigan Supreme Court in the Kalamazoo Case of 1874 established the same taxing

basis for public high schools as had existed for public elementary schools.8 This now-

famous case inaugurated the concept of funding high schools on an equal basis with elementary schools.