The impasse over the 55-year-old joint Williamsburg-James City County school system appears over. A new contract to operate the system is on the agenda to be signed Friday, when the school board meets with the two localities’ elected officials.
James City County just published an agenda for the joint meeting that has as its action items “approval of the Contract for the Joint Operation of the Williamsburg-James City County Public School System.”
County spokespeople declined to provide any further details on the specifics of the contract.
Each locality and the school board must vote to approve it when they meet Friday morning at 8:30 at the James City County Recreation Center on Longhill Road.
The standoff began in June 2023, when Williamsburg City Council voted to study running its own school system. County supervisors, who said they were taken by surprise, retaliated a month later by unanimously voting to terminate the schools’ joint operations contract at the end of this school year.
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