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Friday, July 24, 2009 10:35 PM


Rural school district's creation began 50 years ago with talk of change

Looking back: Central Heights Consolidation grew from compromise

By JENALEA MYERS, Herald Staff Writer

Central Heights Draft
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A drawing from an old Central Heights yearbook depicts the school district’s facility from the air not long after construction.
Older people hate change, George Snow says.

So when school consolidation swept Kansas in the 1960s, many area residents opposed forming a single school that would serve the children in the southeast portion of Franklin County.

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