TENN. SMALL SCHOOL SYSTEMS v. McWHERTER


894 S.W.2d 734 (1995)

TENNESSEE SMALL SCHOOL SYSTEMS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ned Ray McWHERTER, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Charles O. Frazier, Director of Metropolitan Nashville, Davidson County Public Schools, et al., Defendants-Intervenors/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

February 16, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis R. Donelson, Phillip S. McSween, H. Buckley Cole (Heiskell, Donelson, Bearman, Adams, Williams & Caldwell, of counsel), Nashville, for appellants.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Sol. Gen., Michael Catalano, Associate Sol. Gen., Rachel L. Steele, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for defendants-appellees.

Ernest G. Kelly, Jr., Memphis, for defendants-intervenors.


OPINION

REID, Justice.

This second appeal presents for review the decision of the chancery court denying the plaintiffs' demand that funding for all local school systems be equalized immediately. The judgment of the trial court is modified, and the case is remanded.

PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

In Tennessee Small School Systems v. McWherter, 851 S.W.2d 139, 151 (Tenn. 1993), this Court held...

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