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From Both Barrels
Of Schools
And T axes
By GEORGE BOWLES
Gov. Chuck Robb has repeatedly said the improvement of education in Virginia is the top item on his list of priorities. No one questions the governor’s commitment to this objective, but there is a growing worry that he will not be able to find the money needed to deliver on it.
This is a matter of deep concern not only among primary and secondary school faculties, but also in higher education circles. At state colleges and universities, unfilled teaching positions and miniscule pay increases during the last fiscal year have led to a morale problem which is reportedly growing. It has also led to some bitter complaints.
“This has been the worst administration for higher education,” a professor at one of our senior institutions told me, “since before Gov. Mills Godwin’s first term in 1966.”
A similar judgment was voiced in somewhat less emphatic terms by Dr. Gordon K. Davies, the director of the State Council of Higher Education, whose office is currently working on the budget projections for the 1984-86 biennium.
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