A SPECIAL REPORT: SCHOOLS
MOVIN’ ON: Budget troubles are nothing new to Orange County classrooms. . . . One history book notes that in the 1850s, T.J. Scully, a pioneer educator in the county’s first schools, “would teach in a school until the funds were exhausted, then pack his course of study and ferule (punishing rod) and his saddlebags and proceed on his mustang to the next district. . . .” That was before inflation: In 1855-56, Scully earned $75 a month.
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