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By GEORGE BOWLES
It is impossible to say at this time just how the money will be raised, but there appears to be a growing consensus that the 1984 General Assembly will be called upon to ante up millions of dollars in new funds to meet the state’s growing demand for better educational services.
That was the clear signal from a three-day “Commonwealth Conference on Education” which ended last week in Richmond. The gathering, called by Gov. Chuck Robb, was the first full-dress assemblage on the subject since Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. convened a similar conclave in 1967. The issue then was how to end Virginia’s decades of neglect of its educational systems and bring them, at last, into the 20th century.
The issue at last week’s meeting was how to prepare the state for the accelerated demands in education which will be manifest in the closing years of the
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