WINCHESTER --This week, a group of frustrated Clark County parents claimed a small victory in a lawsuit they filed against the Clark County School Board and the Kentucky Board of Education
A Franklin Circuit judge granted an injunction Wednesday that prevents the Clark County School Board from implementing a plan that would close four elementary schools, consolidate the two county middle schools and build a new building for the county's only high school.
Clark County Citizens for Quality Education filed the lawsuit in July. The group alleges that the school board didn't follow proper procedures in developing the District Facilities Plan that outlines the changes to the school district.
The lawsuit is another piece of a debate that has riled parts of the community and put school board members on the defense. In May, critics of the facilities plan challenged board member Rick C. Perry's residency, saying that he didn't live in the district he was elected to represent.
Perry, who was later cleared of the accusations by the attorney general's office, said he was being attacked because he voted in favor of the facilities plan.
For residents who are critical of the plan, their fight represents an attempt to take a stand against a trend across Kentucky -- rural counties losing small schools in favor of larger, consolidated schools...
This from the Herald-Leader.
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