The upcoming gubernatorial campaign results should be of a major concern to those who have any concern with local education and the state of our high schools.
Bob McDonnell wants to take millions of dollars away from our school districts statewide and use our local education monies as a funding mechanism to build superhighways and mass transit in Northern Virginia.
Unlike the McDonnell-Gilmore-like approach to government finance, Creigh Deeds takes a well-balanced tone of compromise and prudence while refusing to cut monies earmarked in the Virginia budget for local school districts.
State education cuts will leave the local real estate taxpayer with a greater burden in finding a meaningful resolution to the needs of all our local high schools.
Obviously supervisors find a $99 million, three school scenario hard to swallow, but just wait until the multimillion dollar cuts flow down to Wise County and Norton if McDonnell is elected.
Enlightened men should not be willing to gut a Southwest Virginia child’s education for an inch of black pavement in Virginia Beach, as McDonnell does.
If local education means much of anything to you; or, you simply want to avoid higher local taxes to fund education, then Creigh Deeds is the correct and responsible choice for governor.
Chelsea Rose
Wise, Va.
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