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Prince Edward County also had some leeway. Since the Supreme Court ruling on the subject of tuition grants limited itself to pronouncing them illegal when part of a school-closedown program, county supervisors could presumably reopen the public schools for Negroes and any whites who wanted to attend —and then resume their old practice of providing funds to help the white-only foundation schools. To settle this issue will take another long battle through the state and federal courts.