Legal Opinion
Neese v. Paris Special School District
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided May 8, 1990PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGHERS, Judge.
Three citizens (“appellants”) of Henry County brought this action contending that the Board of Education (“Board”) of the Paris Special School District (“PSSD”) violated Tennessee's Public Meetings Act. T.C.A. § 8-44-101 et seq. The Circuit Court at Henry County held that no such violation was evident from the facts.
At issue is the Board’s enactment of an educational concept known as clustering. The PSSD is a “Governing body” as that term is defined at T.C.A. § 8-44-102 and it operates three schools consisting of kindergarten through grade 6. Under the concept of clustering,…
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