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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
“For Virginia’s educational system to be among the nation’s best, it must operate on the cutting edge. Today that cutting edge is educational technology. Technology can help students learn, especially low-achieving students. ”
- Report of the Governor’s Commission on Excellence in Education, 1986. In response to that finding, the Governor’s Educational Technology Initiative is offering Virginia high schools an “Electronic Classroom via Satellite Program” and elementary schools can get microcomputers for sixth-grade classes, with the state paying for all hardware — maybe.
That “maybe” prompted the Rappahannock School Board to tell the State Department of Education the county is “guardedly interested” in acquiring a satellite dish for the high school but wants more information on the funding mechanism.
“Supposedly, it wouldn’t cost the school division anything,” Superintendent David Gangel explained at last week’s board meeting. The $6,000 to $9,500 estimated cost per site would be covered by “mini” general obligation bonds which the county would Issue and the Virginia Public School Authority (VPSA) would buy. There would be no requirement for a local referendum to authorize the bonds; the Board of Supervisors would merely hold an advertised public hearing and direct their issuance by resolution. The VPSA would sell the same total amount of bonds and then use the proceeds to purchase the local school bonds.
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