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PETITION OF 2,952 REGISTERED VOTERS

No. 89-CA-1059.

574 So.2d 619 (1990)

In the Matter of the Petition of 2,952 REGISTERED VOTERS OF WAYNE COUNTY, Mississippi, IN OPPOSITION TO REORGANIZATION OF the WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT. CITIZENS INVOLVED VOLUNTARILY IN CONSOLIDATION (CIVIC) v. WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory L. Gore, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Stanford Young, Waynesboro, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This case presents important questions concerning the authority of a public school board to consolidate schools within its district and to reassign students en masse. The matter calls for a sensitive interpretation of provisions of the Uniform School Law of 1986.

What has happened is that the county school board has decreed that all students in grades ten through twelve, until 1989, attending four separate schools...

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