within the authority, if not the duty, of local school boards to fulfill their statutory responsibilities, no matter who the defendants are. Even if we had not reached this conclusion as to the individual county and local independent school districts, it is beyond cavil that the Council, being an independent, legally separate, properly formed non-profit corporation, has the legal authority to sue the General Assembly. We are cited no authority, and can find none, that would enable us to pierce the corporate veil and legally cut off the rights of the individual corporate members. STANDING Appellants next argue that the Council and the local school boards have no standing to join in this lawsuit. In order to have standing to sue, a plaintiff need only have a real and substantial interest in the subject matter of the litigation, as opposed to a mere expectancy. Winn v. First Bank of Irvington, Ky.App., 581 S.W.2d 21, 23 (1978). And, as we have said: "It is fundamental that in order to have standing in a lawsuit a party must have a judicially recognizable interest in the subject matter of the suit." HealthAmerica Corporation of Kentucky v. Humana Health Plan Inc., Ky., 697 S.W.2d 946, 947 (1985). The issue of standing is one which is to be decided on the facts of each case. The Council and the local school boards as plaintiffs in this case are statutorily obligated to promote public education for their respective constituents--the students in their school districts. The local districts are part and parcel of a system of common schools created by the General Assembly, which purports to be constitutionally efficient. If the system is not efficient, the local school board's duty is to make every effort to remedy that situation. Included in that responsibility is the filing of this lawsuit. The local school board and the Council have a judicially recognizable interest in a system of efficient common schools, and we so recognize and declare. VII. IS THIS A PROPER CLASS ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT PLAINTIFFS? Twenty-two student plaintiffs, suing by and through their parents as next friends, argued to the trial court that they were entitled to maintain the lawsuit as a class action on behalf of "all similarly situated students in Kentucky's property-poor districts." Appellants deny appellees' claim. CR 23.01 authorizes the filing of a class action and sets up the requirements therefore. CR 23.03 requires the trial court, "as soon as practicable after the commencement of an action brought as a class action" to make a determination "by order" as to whether a class action may be maintained. It is clear that when the trial court fails to make findings of fact and fails to certify the evidence of a class, within the purview of CR 23, there can be no class action. Brockman v. Jones, Ky.App., 610 S.W.2d 943 (1980). No hearing was held by the trial court in this case, no findings of fact were made by the trial court as to the propriety of a class action, and none of the requirements of CR 23.01 or 23.03 were followed. In fact, the only reference to a class action other than in the pleadings appears in Document ## 1, dated May 31, 1988, in which the court, in its findings of fact identified some of the plaintiffs as "a number of parents and individual students representing as a class all similarly situated students in Kentucky's districts." For the failure of the trial court to follow the mandate of CR 23.01 and 23.03, appellants argue there was no class action. We concur. However, the absence of, or the failure to create a proper class, in no way changes the decision of the trial court or, for that matter, of this Court, with respect to the