Page 12 of the Gray Commission Report emphasizes granting local school boards the option, but not the obligation, to maintain schools for at least nine months, while clarifying legal procedures for school funding, appeals, and assignments. It calls for repealing outdated or contradictory laws, including those mandating segregated schools, and stresses that all proposed legislative measures must be considered together to effectively prevent enforced integration. The report concludes by urging the governor to call a special legislative session focused solely on amending Section 141 of the Virginia Constitution, which is deemed necessary to continue segregationist education policies.
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Local school boards; emergency situation; appeals from actions of school boards; assignment cases; State Board of Education authority; minimum school levies; reversion of unexpended school funds; distribution of school funds; obsolete sections of the Code; section of the Code requiring segregated schools; General Assembly; interrelated proposals; escape enforced integration and yet be educated; amending Section 141 of the Constitution; limited Constitutional Convention