Randy,
I don't know how common it was in other parts of the state (mountain counties, etc.) but I know from my study of the 1950s that Rappahannock and Warren Counties operated a unified school system at the time of the school closings in 1959. As to your other question about dividing counties, I know that my county, Loudoun, once ceded the land
between Sugarland Run and Colvin Run to Fairfax County, I believe early in the 19th century. I think a lot of the folks in western Loudoun would probably be willing to be ceded to Clarke but the rest of the county wouldn't let'm go.
Jim Hershman
Randy Cabell wrote:
> My little county is beginning to creak trying to keep up delivering fire, but mainly schools in the face of insane salary competition among the local cities and counties for teachers. I think that eventually there is going to have to be a Northern Shenandoah Valley Unified School District, which encompasses a set of counties and towns.
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> Interestingly enough, only yesterday did I hear that (1) the county should go out of business and join one of the larger local ones, (2) several local counties might be interested in giving away some of their more rural land to my county (ie let it annex some of their adjacent land.
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> QUESTION #1 - Is there any precedence in the history of the Commonwealth for cross-county unified school districts? I know that some cities within counties run common school systems, but I'm interested in county-to-county systems.
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> QUESTION #2 and this is the biggy. Is there any precendece (after all the counties had been formed) for major shifting of county boundaries. e.g. annexation of part of one county by another county. Here again, I am aware of consolidations of cities and counties, like Virginia Beach in 1963.
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> Randy Cabell
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