Former state Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, who attended George Mason Elementary School in the 1940s and became Richmond’s first African-American mayor in 1977, speaks in support of Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s plan to increase the city’s meals tax to upgrade city school buildings. With him at the Tuesday news conference in Shockoe Bottom are, from left, Interim 7th District School Board member Cheryl Burke; 7th District City Councilwoman Cynthia I. Newbille; his daughter, Nadine Marsh-Carter, a former Richmond School Board member; Southern Kitchen restaurant owner Shane Thomas; and Mayor Stoney.
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City, schools officials struggle over how to fund school building improvement plan
Richmond officials continue to struggle over a funding plan for the public school system’s facilities. In a two-hour meeting Monday night of the Education Compact, Mayor Levar M. Stoney, and members of the Richmond School Board and Richmond City Council exchanged ideas and concerns on the best way to move forward to replace or improve the city’s aging and decrepit school buildings.
