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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff I ritcr
Sursum Corda may soon be added to the list of Reaganomics victims, institutions across the country that have been forced to shut their doors because of recent federal budget cuts.
The non-profit school and day care center in Washington has lost $52,000 in annual government funds since March, 1981. Despite money raising and belttightening efforts which have made up half that loss, Sursum Corda is still $2,000 short of meeting its monthly operational costs, according to director Camille Harris, and if additional funds can’t be secured within the next two to four months, it will be forced to close.
“President Reagan has some good ideas about fiscal responsibility and balancing the budget. And that’s exactly what Sursum Corda has tried to do." said Harris. "We've replace i staff paid by government funds with community volunteers. We’ve cut program costs and generated lots of local support. But we may not make it. The cuts have hit too hard and too fast.
Sursum Corda first started in the basement of the old Washington post office as a primary school with ten students and a curriculum that focused on plenty of individual attention. “We offered structure but freedom within that structure; more
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