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By SEAN ADAMS Arundel Newspaper* Richmond Bureau
RICHMOND — When Gov. Charles S. Robb made his annual speech to the General Assembly last week, he said “education remains my highest priority."
But you wouldn’t know it this week from listening to lobbying groups for local governments and teachers.
They don’t think there is enough money for education — particularly for teachers’ salaries — in Gov. Robb’s proposed 1984-86 budget, and this week they let him feel their wrath.
Gov. Robb’s budget would bring $700,000 in new money to Fauquier County, $1.3 million more to Loudoun, an additional $20,000 to Rappahannock, $4.5 extra to Fairfax and about $300,000 in additional state aid for Clarke County in the first "yekr of the two-year budget, according to the State Department of Educaton. Further increases would also come in the second year.
The onslaught began Monday, during a public hearing before the House Appropriations and Senate Finance committees, and continued Tuesday during a press conference at the Virginia Municipal League offices here.
At the press conference, the VML and the Virginia Association of Counties — two lobbying groups for local governments — joined forces with the Virginia Education Association and the Virginia School Boards Associaton.
They said the governor’s proposed budget fails to live up to the state’s commitment to fund education.
“We are saying (that) because the state has mandated this they have an obligation to fund their fair share of it,” said Lawrence Davies, mayor of Fredericksburg and first vice president, of the VML.
The governor’s budget, according to VML figures, would pay for only 85.4 per
89.7%