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Article: SCHOOL BUDGET PRUDENT OR PADDED?(COMMENTARY)(Editorial)

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April 26, 1998
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Elected school boards with no financial autonomy are 90-pound weaklings.

Case in point: Virginia Beach.

The spring budget season in the resort city has turned into an annual bloodbath. The ritual is predictable: School Board goes, hat in hand, to its master, the City Council, to present its budget request. Council reviews the school budget, recoils in mock horror over budget requests, then gives the schools exactly what it planned to all along - using a revenue-sharing formula that substitutes for actual thinking.

The schools are told if they want more than the formula allows, they must ask the voters for a tax hike.

Meanwhile, golf ...

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