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Thg recent candidate forum revealed near unanimity among the candidates
cfi the issues of taxes and budget. Essentially, no more taxes, no more spending. This attitude will indeed make it a challenge to maintain even reasonafele educational standards in the future even though, again, there seemed to baainammity regarding the desire to keep school standards as high as possible. »
Qfdy Chris Bird (Hampton) and Meredith Gorfein (State Delegate) seemed to h^pte the right idea. Get more money from the state for education. And we’re h0*'.^5 king about a handout here, just our fair share. In Virginia people of similar i“pomes pay vastly differing amounts of taxes to support education in large parQSecause of a very uneven distribution of state aid for public education.
I&as we would like to think, state taxes are collected fairly, then they shoijld also be distributed fairly. No surprise that Richmond schools get more than $1,200 (50% more) per pupil than Rappahannock. If we got the same amount of money from the state as Richmond, that would be an additional $1.25 million each year. i The problem is in the way. the distribution is calculated. One big factor in the formulas is the total income of the county divided by the number of students^ Jay Katzen told me that recently one wealthy family moved into a coun
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