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behalf of obtaining for Rappahannock, which until this year did not even have a separate school sytem of its own, some needed extra time.
Members of the State Board of Education, observed Montague drily, “were seated on a dias, much in the fashion of a Senate hearing; I don’t think it is a democratic process, but I will hand them this—their audio system is good . . .It is easy to talk to them.”
MONTAGUE said Norton told the state schoolmen of piygress made by Rappahannock in recent years in upgrading its educational system. Montague said he “tried to portray, and obviously failed, the differences between rural and urban counties. . .and the difficulties we encounter in transporting children great distances, and of how in the last census, 30 per cent of the families in the county had incomes below what was considered the poverty level at that time.”
Montague said he tried to express his amazement over state statistical rankings which put Rappahannock 108th in average per
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