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Reporters present, and perhaps a lew oi me republican officials, must have wondered where on earth Ms. Obenshain has been for the past couple of years.
During the 1981 gubernatorial campaign, the improvement of education was one of the main themes of Robb’s drive for the governorship. In his inaugural address in January 1982, he placed education at the top of his administration’s agenda for action. In the first 18 months of his term, the funding and improvement of education has been the centerpiece of his budget proposals, and a task force is at work assessing the state’s educational needs for the remainder of the century.
Even making the most liberal allowances for partisan rhetoric, it is hard to see how Robb can be called a Johnny-come-lately to educational concerns.
But there was something even more unsettling in Ms. Obenshains’s remarks. That was her seeming willingness to make education a political football in future elections.
It is probably fair to say that the responsible leadership of both parties in Virginia have avoided this like a plague in the past. Education has properly been treated as a bundle of problems to be solved on a bipartisan basis, and not issues to be fought over as Republican or Democratic concerns.
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