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Use Lottery
For Education
To the Editor:
Jay Katzen ought to stick to the facts with regard to funding our local schools using lottery money. Mr. Katzen last week used his space in the Rappahannock News to rail against Democrats, but made questionable arguments and used deceptive facts to make his point.
At issue in his article was the debate over where lottery funds go: to local communities or to education. Mr. Katzen tells you that Democrats blocked proceeds to communities and supported instead proceeds for education.
Let the record be clear, public education is local. The Democrats’ program (Van Landingham bill) earmarks 100 percent lottery funds for education and sends this money directly to the communities specifically dedicated for public education. That means almost $150 million will go to localities for smaller classrooms, more computers, at-risk programs and to address disparity.
This is new money for education. Under Governor Allen’s plan, which Mr. Katzen supports, the lottery funds would have been up for grabs for localities and not one dollar was guaranteed for education. Under the Democratic plan, education funds cannot be altered by the whims of a Governor or a General Assembly — they are locked into the code. Remember, Governor Allen tried to cut public education by $52 million, cut higher education by $40 million and wanted to throw $500,000 at Mr. Kaizen’s untested charter school social experiment was well as tried in
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