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From President Reagan on down, national, state and local leaders are bemoaning that public education is drowning in a sea of mediocrity.
Mr. Reagan’s life preservers are school prayer, tuition tax credits, abolishment of the Department of Education and most recently, merit pay for teachers. Money isn’t the answer, the president has repeatedly maintained, emphasizing that the U.S. already pays more per student to educate its young people than any other nation.
It may be true that we pay more to educate our children; we haven’t seen the actual Figures to which Mr. Reagan refers. But we also know that we’re paying our teachers less, compared to other professionals. In this country, educators fall into the lowest paid category of professions for which a degree is an entrance requirement.
What kind of message on priorities does that send to our children?
Take Rappahannock County as an example of what’s happening across the United States. In times of fiscal crisis, it’s schools that suffer the first—and the deepest—budget cuts.
What kind of message on priorities does that send to our children?
Despite inflation of around seven percent, the county’s proposed 198384 expenditures for education were reduced by one percent over the total for the current year. Salaries of constitutional officers, which are con
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