Mediation is an option in the lawsuit filed against the Halifax County Board of Commissioners regarding the three separate school systems in the county.
As a key court date in the lawsuit against the Halifax County Board of Commissioners nears, the Coalition for Education and Economic Security and the Halifax County Branch of the NAACP are encouraging the general public to attend a hearing on the matter.
Briefs filed Wednesday in Halifax County Civil Court show the county will argue five points in its attempts to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to unify its three school districts.
The introductory portion of a lawsuit challenging the three-district school configuration in Halifax County “reads more like a press release for political purposes,” than an actual legal document, the attorney representing the county commissioners wrote in a motion to dismiss the action.
The Halifax County Chapter of the NAACP has collected 75 signatures and its president expects to collect a total of 250 from those living inside the Roanoke Rapids city limits whose children cannot attend school in the city's district because of the current configuration of its boundary lines.
Tuesday night's election results, in which two incumbent Halifax County commissioners and one challenger, won in the Democratic primary, should mean an end to talk about school merger and onto talk about how all school systems in the county can be improved.
Over the past couple of months I have spent an enormous amount of time wrapping my head around the funding requirement for a consolidated school system initiated at the hands of the County Commissioners.
The Coalition for Education and Economic Security seems to have forgotten how on one of the hottest days of summer last year it stood lockstep with the Halifax County school system pushing its agenda of school merger.
A pro-merger group is requesting an investigation of a political action committee that fought to defeat a county supplemental school tax nearly two years ago.
A march to bring awareness to civil rights issues in Halifax County is planned for April 5.
