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To be sure, there have been plenty ot fights over education in the legislature and elsewhere. There have been rip-snorting debates over funding, standards of quality and scores of other questions. But generally speaking these have not broken out along party lines. Certainly neither party has claimed a copyright on wisdom when it comes to attacking the infinitely complex problems associated with educational improvement.
It would be irresponsible in the extreme for either party to attempt to stake out such a claim now.
Under recent governors, both Republican and Democratic, the state has, in the last two decades, finally entered the 20th century in education. Progress has been slow—at times painfully slow—but progress has been made. In some areas it has, in the end, been impressive.
But one sure way to stall that progress is for overzealous politicians to attempt to assert that education is their party’s private turf.
A bi-partisan approach to improving education in Virginia has worked well in the past. It should be kept that way.
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