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SUPERINTENDENT of Schools O. A. Norton told the Supervisors that Governor Mills Godwin’s cutback in state funds for education will mean $27,000 less for Rappahannock County. The school board will try to see that reductions “won’t interfere with educational programs,” Norton said.
Rappahannock was fairly will off because two positions for which money had been appropriated have not been filled. The saving of those two salaries, plus the fact that a school bus for which money had been appropriated for this year’s budget had been bought from last year’s funds, make the funding cut not as serious for Rappahannock as it is for other school jurisdictions, Norton said.
Norton said that school population is less this year than school officials had estimated it would be. “Families moving in the county in the last few years haven’t had children.”
“You'll lose some money as a result of that, won’t you?” Herbert Foster asked Norton. The Superintendent said he would. The amount of money returned to counties from local sales tax revenues is based on the number of school children. “And in a small school system, a few pupils make a difference,” he said.
Norton said he was glad that warm weather had lingered so long, since that meant a saving on fuel bills.
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