School Operation Plan of Holmes County Board of Education

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SCHOOL OPERATION PLAN OF HOLMES COUNTY 
BOARD OF EDUCATION 
  

  

Because of the large geographical area encompassed 

by the Holmes County School District, 764 square miles, 

and the fact that approximately 80% of the students in i 

the system are transported, there being a total of approx- 

imately 6,500 students in the system, 86% of which are 

Negro, and there being no natural geographical lines by 

which reasonable or practical attendance zones could be 

established, each student of the system is to attend the 

school which he or she attended during the 1968-69 school 

year, for the coming school year and thereafter, except 

as hereinafter provided, and except that any student 

attending a school in which his or her race is in a ma- 

jority shall have the absolute right, at any time, to 

transfer to a school in which his or her race is in a 

minority. 

There shall be substantial faculty integration 

throughout the system at the beginning of the 1969-70 

school year; school shall not open until such substan- 

tial faculty integration has been accomplished. 

After the opening of the 1969-70 school year, all 

new students entering the system shall be assigned to 

the school located nearest to the student's place of 

residence. 

The Holmes County Board of Education shall forth- 

with formulate and execute a financial plan to accumulate 

funds from all available sources and by all available 

means toward the end of constructing, and shall construct 

as soon as possible either by new construction or by 

expansion of an existing facility, three attendance cen- 

ters, consisting of one attendance center at or near 

the Town of Tchula, which facility shall be attended by 

all students residing in the western one-third of the 

district; one attendance center at or near the City of 

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Lexington, which shall be attended by all students re- 

siding in the central one-third of the district, and 

one attendance center at or near the City of Durant, 

which shall be attended by all students residing in 

the eastern one-third of the district, except in such 

eastern district all students residing south of the 

north corporate limits of the Town of Goodman, in said 

eastern zone, and attending grades one through eight, 

shall attend the Goodman-Pickens school, now in exis- 

tence; provided however, it shall be mandatory, at the 

time that said new or expanded facilities are opened 

that the ''tract'" or '"lap'" system or method of teaching 

be utilized in said new or expanded facilities and 

further mandatory that any teacher who is employed to, 

or does teach in said new or expanded facility, shall 

be required prior thereto, to take the National Teachers 

Examination and shall obtain a score of not less than 

1100 (eleven hundred) upon said examination. 

This plan is designed to integrate all students 

into one building, in each of the three geographical 

'"'zones' in the district, with the exception of part 

of the elementary in the ''eastern zone', and to en- 

courage attendance by all students by removing any ques- 

tion of student achievement differences by use of "Tract" 

system of teaching and any question of faculty ability 

differences by use of the National Teachers Examination 

score. 

This school system, in its entirety, shall be 

operated on a non-segregated and non-discriminatory basis, 

in every respect; including transportation, athletics, and 

all extra curricular activities; administrative personnel, 

faculty and service personnel shall be employed, promoted, 

assigned, demoted and dismissed on a completely non-dis- 

criminatory basis. 

 



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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I hereby certify that on this the 8th day 

August, 1969, I caused to be served by United States 

mail, postage prepaid, a copy of the foregoing School 

Operation Plan of Holmes County Board of Education 

upon Melvyn R. Leventhal, Exquire, Reuben V. Anderson, 

Esquire, Fred L. Banks, Jr., Esquire, 5383 North Farish 

Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39202. 

  

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