Appeal of Muhlenberg County Board of Education

McDONALD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a KRS 418.-020 declaratory judgment action filed in Muhlenberg Circuit Court by Muhlenberg County, Central City, and Greenville school systems. We conclude that we have the authority to review the merits of this action because of the “confusion detrimental to the school system [which] will undoubtedly result” if the situation complained of is not rectified. Board of Education of Lexington v. Harville, Ky., 416 S.W.2d 730, 733 (1967).

Four years ago, the Muhlenberg County, Central City, and Greenville school districts began the long, arduous task of…