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- Campaign Documents
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- Coleman For Governor, Wilder for Governor, Political Reports, Moving Arkansas Forward into the 2st Century (Bill Clinton Governor),
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- 1989
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- ["Multiple creators"]
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- L. Douglas Wilder Collection, L. Douglas Wilder Library, Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA
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Coleman For Governor
4914 Fitzhugh Avenue, P.0. Box 17558
Richmond, Virginia 23226
804/358-1989
October 6, 1989
For Immediate Release
Dennis Peterson, Communications Director
Contact: Bruce Hildebrand
Jay Timmons
COLEMAN WANTS TO RETURN EXCELLENCE T
WTT.T. BUILD SCHOOLS. NOT LOTTERY OFFICES,
NORFOLK-Republican gubernatorial nominee J. Marshall Coleman said today that "unparalled
opportunities for excellence" in education are ahead for Virginia and that his plan to return 100
percent of lottery proceeds to localities "will allow local communities to devote additional resources
to education." The candidate delivered his remarks to the Virginia School Boards Assocation and
the Virginia Association of School Superintendents in Norfolk.
'When I am Governor," said Coleman, "you will not hear talk about spending $20 million to
build a new office budding in Richmond to house state lottery officials. I think we should budd
schools, not lottery offices, and I want to return lottery revenues to Virginia localities so they can
decide what are their most urgent priorities."
The former Attorney General warned against teachers unions and pointed out that his
opponent, L. Douglas Wdder, has a history of sponsoring and supporting legislation to promote
public sector unionism. "One lesson Virginians have learned from the bitter experience of other
states," he said, "is that we cannot tolerate the disruption of our eductional system that inevitably
results when teachers trade their chalkboards for picket signs."
Coleman stressed the need for rewarding outstanding teachers with merit pay, a concept on
which he and Wdder disagree. "Professional instruction of the highest quality wdl be achieved only
when we accord teachers respect, recognition and compensation consistent with the magnitude of
their responsibility and the level of the performance," Coleman said. "As Governor, I wdl strongly
support efforts to raise teacher salaries in order to attract the best qualified instructors to the
teaching profession."
The Repubdcan nominee reiterated his opposition to state programs, like FLE, which are
mandated by the state but have insufficient no state funds to pay for them. "When the state tells
you what to do in education without paying for it, it forces you to change priorities that you and
your fedow school board members have determined are in the best interest of your district," he told
the school board association members. Coleman supports Famdy Life Education by local option, but
opposes the state mandate. Wdder has attempted to distort Coleman’s position on FLE by claimed
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