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School System Now in Metro

School System Now in Metro

School System Now in Metro By EUGENE DIETZ Education Editor VII bUIIVI I Tha nine -man metropolitan board of education wilt hold Its first session week after next, Dr Henry H. Hill, board chairman and president emeritus of Pea-body College, said yesterday. Yesterday was the last day of existence for the Nashville public school system and the Davidson County school systems. The new board will run what used to be the city and county schools. "It should be understood from the beginning," said Hill, "that we now have a metro school system.

It it a single system now." The educational phases of the rharter went into effect yesterday when the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the legality of metro, HILL AND HIS fellow board members will forge the policies of the new school unit, made up of the old Nashville system and the county system. The time and place of the historic first session of the nine-member transitional school board have not been set. Three members were named in the charter commission. They are Hill, Edward Carman, business director of Avco, and Dr. W.

S. Davis, president of Tennessee State University. Six members will be telected Oct. 11. The seven-man David-ion County board.

In its final session at 4:30 p.m. that day, will elect three of its members to serve on the new board. And 'the nine-member Nashville Board of Education, In its last session, at 8 p.m. in the Hume-Fogg Building, will elect three members to the transition bonrd, Elmer Pcttit, board chairman, said yesterday. ONCE- THESE moves have been made by tho two old boards, Hill will then summon (Turn to Page 15, Column 1) i of A Ua iu nf in In tn ed.