Editor, Index-Tribune
Thanks for the excellent coverage and editorial on the Portrait of Sonoma in the Sept. 26, edition, “Report paints portrait of Valley.”
With our public schools as resource centers for each of their communities, and with education being the most important factor on the human development scale, I remind myself that California public schools are 49th in per student funding and that if our Sonoma Valley district had just the national average in funding, we would have $16 million more per year to support public education in our Valley.
The importance of financial and volunteer support from our community is critical in “leveling the playing field.” There is amazing support in both these key factors here in the Valley, but clearly we need to redouble our efforts.
Whitney Evans
Sonoma
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