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The Brickley bill would require signatures from 10 percent of locality’s voters before being placed on the ballot, ensuring substantial support before a vote is allowed, Brickley said.
Testifying in favor of the bill last week were representatives of the Virginia Education Assocation and the Virginia Taxpayers’ Assocation, groups divergent in their views on almost every other subject but in agreement over the school board issue.
Brickley, who has worked for popularly elected school boards since joining the House in 1975, said Virginia is the only state without some provision for elected school boards. Arlington County elected its school board for fen years until the board angered the legislature by voluntarily desegregating Arlington schools more than two decades ago. In the 1980
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