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PUBLIC EDUCATION .
IN VIRGINIA • )*'
Public education in Virginia is ai arge enterprise. The bosineseman realises this when be knows that in a sing-1 e year (1952-53) Virginians invested as much as f 195,000,000 in their public elementary and secondary schools. It 4s an enterprise which has enor. mo us potentialities for influencing life in the Commonwealth how and for years ahead. These potentialities are of interest to the Virginia > businessman, /to the educational , officials who operate our schools, and to every eitisen in the state.
There are several oenspieuous aspects of this job that lie ahead. , 1. 8here will be persistent need for more classrooms to houA the anticipated further increases in enrollment.
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