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Noting that the state "doesn’t even have a list" of the costly instructional programs it requires of the localities, he said the "localities are being turned into revenue agents for the state."
Rappahannock is facing that very problem again during this budgetadopting season. The average pupil cost has risen from about $500 to more than $1,000, and it’s not an increase that can be blamed wholly on inflation.
The state requires special education classes for "each handicapped child in the least restrictive environment.” Classes of 8 or 10 "exceptional children” taught by specially trained teachers compare with classes of 25 to 30 pupils taking traditional “unexceptional" courses.
Local schools must pay for "health therapy" for handicapped children.
System-wide public school kindergartens are required now.
And the state also now requires that vocational training be made available to each child so that he will have "marketable skills’’ when he is graduated.
How are these worthwhile programs to be paid, and by whom? The General Assembly in its wisdom didn’t say.
It would be unthinkable for our own Board of Supervisors to approve such a program without providing the means to pay for it. But Miller says our state legislators do just that. And he termed it “a basic weakness in our legislative process.”
"It should be required,’’ said Candidate Miller, “that every member of the Assembly’’ who adopts a program because it’s “a good idea" first learn how much a program is going to cost the homefolks, and how the money will be raised. Before he votes on it.
Amen.
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