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What's Happening
In Education
By Kenneth W. Stanley
During the decade of the 1960’s, significant strides were made in the field of Education. A11 governmental levels, the majority of educators, and even entire communities were affected by the resulting change.
In 1965, the Federal Government passed the ‘‘Elementary and Secondary Education Act,’’ which I represented the first massive Federal aid program to public schools. As a participant in this program, the Rappahannock C o unty Public Schools have benefited in the amount of $232,000. This money has helped establish innovative Reading and Special Education programs in Rappahannock Elementary School with the aim of helping raise the achievement levels of elementary students in these areas in order that they may meet with s u ccess in upper elementary grades and high school,
One year later. In 1966, Congress passed legislation to establish “Project Head Start’’, i nis program’s aim has been to provide pre-school experiences of an enrichment nature for the disadvantaged child. In this way, such children are more likely to meet with success when they enter primary school. Although Ft appahannock County Public Schools are not presently participating in this program, during the decade of the 1960’s, the Rappahannock County Public School System initiated a similar program in the “Pre-School Readiness Program,” which was beld in Rappahannock County Elementary School for three •weeks last summer.
In 1968, the Virginia General Assembly enacted a statewide compulsory school attendance law for those 6 - 17 years of age. HT be general feeling of our legislators, was that Virginia can no longer regard the education of its citizens as a luxury, but must instead regard education as indispensable to human Fulfillment. The same session of the General Assembly launched a “local option” kindergarten program for public school divisions in the State and started a pilot program to find preschool children with impaired hearing so they can get special help before entering school. Although Rappahannock does not presently have a kindergarten program, this legislation has set a precedent and, fri the yeart iheirffinior^school divisions are likely to add kindergarten programs if there is sufficient interest in the community.
During the 1960’s, the Rappahannock County School Board and the County Board of Supervisors have made possible by budget appropriations, the i addition of several specialists to | the School Board staff who have been instrumental in determining instructional and problems related to student learning disability. Such diagnostic techniques have provided the information from which improvements in the
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