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Private School List Dwindles - Deadline now on April 1

1970 March 19 - Integration - Private School List Dwindles.jpg

Only 75 students have paid the 50% of tuition for the new proposed private school. They are considering only making it for grades 1-9 due to lack of high school student registration.

Tags: Ashburn Public Schools, Charles Henry Wideman (8/16/1923 - 9/12/1993), Integration of Turner County Schools, Larry Lambert (1941-2008), Rebecca School, Turner County Academy

March 12 is Deadline for Registration for Private School Slated at Rebecca

"March 12 is the final date for enrollment of a student in Turner County Academy, the proposed private school here which will begin operation Sept. 1."

Tuition is $500.

It was voted to purchase the former Rebecca School from Charles Wideman of…

Tags: Ann Stephens Williford (3/19/1936 - 8/8/2018), Ashburn Schools, Calvin F. Johnston (3/4/1925 - 3/5/2015), Charles Henry Wideman (8/16/1923 - 9/12/1993), Citizens Bank of Ashburn, Crisp Academy, Fred Dorminey, Integration of Turner County Schools, J.K. Nelson, Joe Mercer, Larry Lambert (1941-2008), Martha Gorday Shingler (1926-1995), Rebecca School, Turner County Academy, Turner County Courthouse

Board Wants Free Choice - School Official's Must Submit Plan Here By March 1

1970 Feb 26 - Integration - Board Wants Free Choice - must submit plan by March 1.jpg

Discusses the deadline - March 1, 1970 - for submitting a plan for integration of Turner County Schools. The Board of Education has a petition of more than 1,100 names of parents who want their children to have a choice of what school they attend. If…

Tags: Ashburn Public Schools, Daniel Carlton Royal Sr. (1/5/1907 - 5/18/1991), Eureka School, Integration of Turner County Schools, Sycamore School

Board Wants 'Free Choice' - 500 Hear Plan for Schools

1970 Feb 12 - Integration - Board Wants _Free Choice_.jpg

"A plan which calls for freedom of choice by students who will be allowed to attend any school they wish in Turner County will be submitted Feb. 28, school officials said.

They said they intend to follow this plan to 'the letter of the law.' If it…

Tags: (Jesse) Royce Hanner (2/10/1929 - 1/2/2016), Ashburn Public Schools, Buck Durham (5/15/1918 - 3/31/1988), Daniel Carlton Royal Sr. (1/5/1907 - 5/18/1991), Hodge King (1914-1999), Integration of Turner County Schools, Jimmy Alberson (1936-2019), John R. Rogers, Race Relations in Turner County, Robert Davis, The Wiregrass Farmer, Tom Shivers, Walter Whitehead, William G. "Bill" Hardin (1928-2012)