Gov. Bill Haslam delivers his annual State of the State address to the Tennessee Legislature in Nashville in this Feb. 9, 2015, file photo.
Seven Chattanooga area school systems have filed suit against the state of Tennessee for not sufficiently funding local schools as mandated under the law.
The suit comes a day after Rick Smith declared that he was “pleased” with the outcome of a meeting between Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and several school system superintendents who have expressed displeasure with the state’s level of education funding.
Today’s lawsuit, filed in Davidson County Chancery Court, alleges that the state has “breached its duty under the Tennessee Constitution to provide a system of free public education for the children of this state.”