Fries v. Rowan County Board of Education

In the instant case, a citizen’s group seeks to challenge the action of the Rowan County School Board assigning pupils to the various schools of the North Rowan School District of Rowan County. General Statutes 115-176 to 115-179 establish a method of assignment of pupil school students and a method of challenge of that assignment. A “person aggrieved” by an order of a school board is given the right to appeal from an order of the board, within 10 days of the date of the order, to the Superior Court for a hearing de novo. G.S. 115-179.

There does not appear in the record any reason why this…