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By GEORGE BOWLES
Republican strategists, it seems, have discovered that there are a few problems with education in the nation and in the Commonwealth.
They have also concluded that these problems might be built into a campaign issue which could be used to advantage against their Democratic opponents in this fall’s General Assembly elections.
At least that is the only conclusion which can reasonably be drawn from a remarkable speech made a fortnight ago by Helen Obenshain, Virginia’s national Republican committeewoman. Ms. Obenshain, who had just returned from a GOP strategy conference in Texas, addressed a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee in Richmond. She was all fired up about what she had learned.
At the conference, she had discovered the widely publicized report of the National Commission on Educational Excellence. The report, which was released earlier in the summer, is entitled A Nation at Risk.
“Education is a Republican issue!” declared Ms. Obenshain. “This is an issue all of our candidates can
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