Board of Education v. Brooks

HUDDLESTON, Judge.

The Board of Education of Hopkins County, Kentucky, appeals from an order declaring that special taxes levied by a school board as authorized by KRS 160.593 et seq. are subject to levy recall. Because we are satisfied that the trial court correctly interpreted the present school funding statutes, we affirm its decision to permit a recall election to be held.

In 1990, the Kentucky General Assembly, in response to the Supreme Court’s directive in Rose v. Council for Better Education, Inc., Ky., 790 S.W.2d 186 (1989), enacted an Education Reform Act which revised both state and…