Tommy N. Turner

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Three Rooms: Williamsburg and James City County and the Joint School System, 1955–2026

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Three Rooms is a seventy-year institutional history of the joint school system serving Williamsburg and James City County, 1955 to 2026.

Three Rooms is a seventy-year institutional history of the joint school system serving Williamsburg and James City County, 1955 to 2026. Fourteen contract amendments, a tenfold population imbalance between the participating jurisdictions, the July 25, 2023 closed-session termination vote by the James City County Board of Supervisors, twenty-eight months of breakup, and the three-board signing ceremony on October 10, 2025 that formalized the separation. Draws on public-meeting minutes, verbatim transcripts of deliberations, contract records, and the local press across seven decades. Part of the Regional Government Records Corpus series. v3, revision 6.

Book-length institutional history, v3 rev 6. isPartOf the Regional Government Records Corpus (22045517/20088873).

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BibTeX
@misc{turner2026threeroomswilliamsburgan,
  author = {Turner, Tommy N.},
  title = {Three Rooms: Williamsburg and James City County and the Joint School System, 1955–2026},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version = {3, revision 6},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22059383},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22059383}
}
APA
Turner, T. N. (2026). Three Rooms: Williamsburg and James City County and the Joint School System, 1955–2026 (Version 3, revision 6). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22059383
Chicago
Turner, Tommy N. 2026. “Three Rooms: Williamsburg and James City County and the Joint School System, 1955–2026.” Version 3, revision 6. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22059383.