Overcrowding in Stokes schools is urgent matter, superintendent says

School officials in Stokes County say that years of inadequate county financing for renovations has forced the school district to spend state money that could have been saved for the construction of a new school.

"It's really important that local budgets keep pace with needs," said Larry Cartner, the superintendent of Stokes County Schools.

Sherry Youngquist

Not true at all. The problem is years of control of the Board of Commissioners by a real estate agent whose agenda was to sell houses and develop land, regardless of the impact to services offered by the county. That irresponsibility is a burden Stokes County taxpayers will be shouldering for years, maybe decades to come.