What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "state government (includes territories & commonwealths)". Your task is to determine which category of state government best describes this litigant.

Opinion:
Michelle OLIVER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. KALAMAZOO BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, State Board of Education et al., Defendants-Appellants.
No. 80-1006.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Argued June 19, 1980.
Decided Dec. 15, 1980.
Arthur Staton, Jr., Ford, Kriekard, Sta-ton, Allen & Decker, Kalamazoo, Mich., for defendants-appellees Kalamazoo Bd. of Ed. et al.
Michael H. Jackson, Denver, Colo., Louis R. Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Robert A. Derengoski, Sol. Gen., Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Mich., Richard P. Gartner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendants-appellants State Bd. of Ed. et al.
Stuart J. Dunnings, Jr., Dunnings & Canaday, Lansing, Mich., Nathaniel R. Jones, Gen. Counsel, NAACP, Thomas Atkins, NAACP Special Contribution Fund, New York City, Duane Elston, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellees.
James A. White, Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, Lansing, Mich., for intervenors.
Samuel J. Flanagan, Jr., Brian K. Lands-berg, Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., James S. Brady, U. S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., for U. S. intervenors.
Before ENGEL and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM.
The issue raised in this appeal by appellant, Kalamazoo Board of Education, was decided this day in an appeal by the Michigan State Board of Education in No. 79-1723. An issue there and the issue here is whether the district court erred in ordering implementation of recommendations in the Green-Cohen report with respect to the Kalamazoo school system. The panel in No. 79-1723, Weick and Brown, JJ. and Peck, Senior Judge, decided that the district judge did err in so ordering the implementation of such recommendations, and the order was vacated and the case was remanded. Since this panel agrees that the order vacating and remanding the order of the district court in No. 79-1723 is correct and agrees with the reasons stated therefor, this panel adopts the opinion in No. 79-1723 insofar as it relates to the issue presented here.
The order of the district court is therefore vacated and the case is remanded.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "state government (includes territories & commonwealths)". Which category of state government best describes this litigant?

Choices:
legislative
executive/administrative
bureaucracy providing services
bureaucracy in charge of regulation
bureaucracy in charge of general administration
judicial
other

Answer: 2