TheHigh Court of Karnatakahas reserved for judgment a 1995 petition challenging the various provisions of theKarnatakaEducation Act, 1983. The provisions challenged include the reservation for appointment of staff in unaided schools and prescription of syllabus by the .
Private schools in Karnatakahave approached the High Court of Karnataka, seeking among other things, permission to draft textbooks on their own.
The Karnataka Unaided Schools Managements’ Association (KUSMA) in their petition have sought “the State government ought not to prescribe any particular publication or textbook as the sole and exclusive reading material in private unaided schools; and that, private unaided schools are free to choose a textbook of their choice so long as such textbooks adhere to the syllabus prescribed by the State government.”
The provisions of the Karnataka Education Act, 1983 in this regard has been challenged.
KUSMA has also challenged several other provisions of the Karnataka Education Act including Section 5 read with Section 41(3), which prescribes reservation in the matter of appointment of TEACHING and non-teaching staff in private unaided schools.