Independent School District No. 12 of Oklahoma County, c/k/a Edmond Public Schools

School district filed an application for the Supreme Court to assume original jurisdiction and issue extraordinary and declaratory relief to prevent enforcement of rules by the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and Superintendent of Public Instruction. Respondents seek to use the rules in enforcement proceedings brought against the school district before the State Board. We assume original jurisdiction, in part, over the controversy. We deny respondents' motion for oral argument. We hold: (1) State statutes give a local school board power and a type of statutory discretion to supply books for a school library that meet local community standards, and (2) No statute gives the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and Superintendent of Public Instruction the authority to supervise, examine, and control a local school board's exercise of this discretion when the local school board applies local community standards for books it supplies for a local school library.

We issue a writ of prohibition to the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and direct them, both collectively and individually, to take the necessary steps to dismiss the proceedings brought against the Edmond School District to enforce OAC 210:10-2-1, 210:10-2-2, 210:10-2-3, 210:10-2-4. 210:35-3-121, 210:35-3-121.1, 210:35-3-126, and 210:35-3-128, State Department of Education Rules, and direct respondents to dismiss their enforcement proceeding reviewing the Edmond School District's selection of books the District has placed in one or more of its school libraries. Petitioner's request for declaratory and injunctive relief is denied.