EWP Grey Commission 011

Title

Place

Virginia

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1000582

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Date Created

2024-01-07

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Loudoun County Public Schools

Language

English

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Local school boards should be authorized, but not required to main-
tain public schools for a period of at least nine months. A locality may be
confronted with an emergency situation.

The present procedure goirerning appeals from actions of school
boards should be clarified so that it will not conflict with appeals in as-
signment cases.

The State Board of Education appears to have the authority to ap-
prove the operation of schools in a locality for a period of less than nine
months with no loss in State funds. This should be made clear.

The requirement for minimum school levies or cash apprqpx:iations
in lieu thereof should be eliminated and levies or cash appropriation for
educational purposes authorized.

The procedure for the reversion of unexpended school funds should be
broadened so as to make it apply to appropriations for educational pur-
poses.

Those sections of the Code relating to distribution of school funds
Whic}i are obsolete, being covered by the Appropriation Act, should be
repealed.

The sect'ion of the Code requiring segregated schools has been
rendered void by the Supreme Court of the United States and should be
repealed.

The section of the Code requiring cities to maintain a system of
p}lllblic ;chools should be repealed since it duplicates another provision of
the Code. .

CONCLUSION

The Commission has set forth at length the bill the adoption of which
is essential to the enactment of legislation to avoid enforced integration.
It has discussed in detail the proposals which it believes the General As-
sembly should consider and adopt subsequent to the amendment of Section
141 of the Constitution. They are so interrelated that it is impractical to
consider them except in their entirety and at the same time. To attempt
to pass some of them without at the same time being able to consider and

- to act upon the others, would not be feasible. Finally, as this report has

stressed, if those educational programs which have been endangered by the
decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in the case of
Almond v. Day are to be continued, and if our children are to escape
enforced integration and yet be educated, it is necessary that Section 141
of the Constitution be amended through the calling of a limited Constitu-
tional Convention.

The session of the General Assembly which considers that matter
should not have before it other measures to becloud the issue and delay
action on the most pressing problem confronting the State in this century.
We therefore recommend that Your Excellency call a special session of
;clhe General Assembly for the sole purpose of considering the bill attached

ereto.

Silbsequent to the Constitutional Cohvention the Commission will be
prepared to submit specific bills carrying out the proposals hereinabove
set forth.

In conclusion, the Commission wishes to express its gratitude to Your
Excellency; to the Honorable J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General;

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