Turner v. School District of Clayton

The dispositive issue in this case is the declaration that the straightforward and unambiguous language of § 167.131, RSMo 2000,1 applies as written. Plaintiffs are parents and children who reside in the City of St. Louis transitional school district2 but attend schools in the Clayton school district pursuant to tuition agreements. After the transitional school district lost its state accreditation, the parents and children sued the Clayton school district, the board of education of the City *663of St. Louis and the transitional district of the City of St. Louis claiming the transitional school…