Chandler v. South Bend Community School Corp.

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STATEMENT ON THE APPEAL

Staton, J.

— An established policy of the South Bend Community School Corporation provides for the assessment of a textbook rental fee against its students for each term of enrollment. The rules and regulations implementing that policy were enacted by the School Corporation pursuant to expressed statutory provisions granting it the power to do so and detailing the rental fees permitted. 1 Lillie Chandler, individually and as a representative of a class of persons who assertedly could not afford the resulting assessments, initiated this action in the trial court seeking…