Tennessee Small School Systems v. McWherter

How courts have described this case

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• holding constitutional clause “The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance, support and eligibility standards of a system of free public schools” embraces a qualitative component
• affirming trial court’s holding that the appropriate remedy should be fashioned by the General Assembly
• affirming trial court's holding that the appropriate remedy should be fashioned by the General Assembly
• rejecting defendants' claim that this rule is not \an enforceable standard for assessing the educational opportunities provided in the several districts throughout the state\
• rejecting defendants’ claim that this rule is not “an enforceable standard for assessing the educational opportunities provided in the several districts throughout the state”
• rejecting argument that the constitution’s education clause provides “no standard whereby the courts can measure the adequacy of funding or the educational program itself’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).