Durant-Related Payments
Durant-related payments refer to state expenditures that resulted from the Michigan Supreme Court’s 1997 decision in Durant v. State of Michigan. The court held that state government had mandated certain special education programs, but failed to finance adequately districts’ compliance with these mandates, thereby violating the Headlee amendment to the Michigan Constitution. As a settlement, the court awarded $212 million in damages to the school districts that had joined in the lawsuit (for more on Durant and related court decisions, see “Appendix 2: Summary of ‘Durant’ Court Decisions”).
A number of school districts, however, did not join the Durant v. State of Michigan lawsuit. These “nonplaintiff” districts receive two forms of payment in return for forgoing any legal claims related to the Durant decision.[clxix] We discuss both payments below.
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