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Ashe County Schools is a PK–12 graded school district serving Ashe County, North Carolina. The system, which once had as many as 66 school buildings as late as the 1930s, now manages five schools serving 3,297 students as of the 2010–2011 school year. ==History== While some attempts at public schools existed in the area, public education did not begin in earnest until the state of North Carolina passed the public school laws in 1839. By 1842, Ashe County adopted the state common school system and began to receive funds from the State Literary Fund to support education in the county. Around 1840, there were only two primary common schools with a total enrollment of only 48 students. Ten years later, however, enrollments had grown to 1,476 students. While 36 school districts were reported in 1853, this number grew to 93 districts with 4,371 students in 1858, a year which also saw the first county-wide tax for public schools levied.〔 The Civil War hit the county education establishment hard. Several years in the 1860s saw no schools operating at all in the county and the county basically had to start all over in building up the system after the war. The system went from 71 districts in which 61 districts taught school for a whole three months in 1860, to only four schools total for White students in 1870. Many of the former school buildings were in serious states of disrepair. But the end of Reconstruction brought renewed interest and by the end of the 1870s, 106 White schools and 6 Black schools existed. In 1885, the superintendent became an elected position, the first being Quincy F. Neal.〔 By 1917, Ashe County had seven school districts which levied their own special school taxes. In August of that year, the county board of commissioners approved an additional county-wide property tax as well as a three cent poll tax for schools.〔 A general moved toward school consolidation began in the late 1920s under the superintendency of R. E. L. Plummer. He actually stepped down to become principal of the consolidated school in Healing Springs High School. Later, Works Progress Administration assistance furthered consolidation efforts as well as the efforts of Odie Cox, an African American teacher in the Nathan's Creek area who led the consolidation of Black schools in the county. In 1933, the system had 59 White and 7 Black one- or two-teacher schools. This was greatly reduced to the point that there were none in the county by 1960. That year, the overall number of schools had been reduced to 14 for Whites and one for Blacks.〔 In 2005, Ashe County Schools became one of the few districts to have internet access in all classrooms when they upgraded their system's Wide Area Network to a Fiber-optic network. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ashe County Schools」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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