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charged. This suggestion from the superintendent prevailed, he said, because Dr. Bloomer convinced the other board members that they could get money for the school bus right back from surplus funds left over in the current budget.
Beat For Education
"I don’t think we were prevailed upon by anyone,” countered school board member Nancy Reeve. “We did what we thought best for the education of the children after hearing a lot of different input.”
Chairman Beverly Massie agreed, recalling that the school board held a series of budget meetings to receive citizen input in addition to comment members regularly receive from constituents.
School board member Nelson Lane noted that excessive teacher turn-over is a “tremendous problem” in the Rappahannock school system. He acknowledged, however, that the board’s action in. absorbing the budget cuts had ‘‘totally
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