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Editorial: School fund-raiser shouldn’t be needed

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 | 8:37 a.m.

Principal Beverly Mathis has spent nine years at Booker Elementary School in West Las Vegas and her leadership is paying off. Despite the school's location in a high-crime area, it has a stable and dedicated staff of teachers and support workers. Most impressive are the achievements of Booker's students, particularly over the past two years. The school has worked its way off the state's "needs improvement" list and appears able to stay off.

Mathis and her staff have enlisted the support of the community in improving the school. The latest involvement is a fund-raiser scheduled for Aug. 30 at Treasure Island. The goal is to raise enough money to buy software for the school's learning lab and to send teachers to classes where they can learn to effectively use the software. We commend all who are involved in the fund-raiser. But we also long for the day when education is funded properly and equitably, so that schools can bypass fund-raisers and focus all of their energies on learning.

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