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After several months of negotiations with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, a plan of desegregation for Rappahannock County Schools nears acceptance by that department, the School Board was informed at its November meeting. The Rappahannock County School Board submitted apian of desegregation to H.E.W. in June and has supplied supplemental information as requested by the Federal Agency During the past six weeks, the Superintendent of Schools has conferred with Health, Education and Welfare officials in an effort to negotiate an acceptable plan. The chief difficulty has involved the status of the George Washington Carver School, owned and operated jointly with the Counties of Culpeper, Madison and Orange since 1948. ' " Under the requirements of H. E. W. effective with the start of the 1967-68 school year,all Rappahannock County students must be withdrawn from the Carver School. In order to provide adequate housing for these students in Rappahannock County in 1967, the Board of Supervisors for! Rappahannock has grantedpetmission to the School Board to make application to the State Literary Fund for the loan in the amount of $110,000.00 for the addition of classrooms and a vocational shop at the Rappahannock County High School. Rappahannock initiated a f r e e d o m-of-choice assignment policy for the session
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