Never Sign A Blank Check...

Never Sign A Blank Check...

Point 1. What The Referendum Involve*.

At the referendum on January 9, the people of Vir' ginia will vote on one question only. It. is: ‘13hall there be a Convention to revise and amend Section 141 of the Constitution?’' You must vote for or against, i This is the one and only question and the one and only i chance to vote upon the question. If the referendum carries, the Constitutional Convention itself will, change Section 141 and will proclaim the change without submitting it to the voters for approval. Point 2. How Section 141 Of The Constitution Will Be ' Amended. '

Section 141 provides basically and simply that no public funds shall be speht for private schools. The amendxnent will permit public funds to be spent for non-sectarian private schools, both private elementary schools and private high schools. Point 3. Tuition Grants Will Not Be Limited.

Under the constitutional change tuition grants will not be limited to children whose parents wish to remove them from integrated schools. If the change in 141 is made, the door will be open to grants to any children at any nonsectarian private school. The Gray Report says that the present intention is to limit grants to the children of part ents objecting to integrated schools, but this intention may , change. The door, let us repeat, will be open to grants to children in any non-sectarian private school in the state. , ’ Point 4. No Ceiling On Tuition Grants.

In answering questions of the Roanoke Times,,Governor Stanley said there would be no ceiling upon tuition grants in counties where public schools have been abandoned after the first year. The only limit now proposed is based upon per pupil operating cost in the preceding year. Tl;ere is nothing in the Gray proposal or in the law to prevent increasing state allotments to such counties in a sum sufficient to cover the'full cost of private school tuition. The