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recession. "You don't tax yourself oul of hard limes," he said.
Last year, educational programs were held involate when the General Assembly took an axe to budget proposals. Instead of cutting aid to education, the legislators even upped support to localities, joining Gov. Robb in urging that the additional funds be committed to raising teacher salaries by ten percent each year of the biennium. Since funding education is a joint responsibility of the stale and localities, the balance of the money to provide the ten percent pay increases had to come from city, county and town coffers. "Some localities gave more than ten percent, some gave considerably less than ten percent,” Guest noted. As a result of that
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