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HB 2151 School funding; reporting of required local expenditure.

Introduced by: Thomas Davis Rust | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

School funding; reporting of required local expenditure. Codifies and broadens existing budget language to direct the Department of Education to collect annually necessary data to make calculations at the beginning and end of each school year to ensure that each school division has appropriated sufficient funds to support its estimated required local expenditure for providing an educational program meeting the prescribed Standards of Quality (SOQ). The end-of-year calculations shall be designed to verify whether the locality has provided the required expenditure, based on average daily membership as of March 31 of the relevant school year.

The Department is to report annually to the House Committees on Education and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health the results of such calculations and the degree to which each school division has met, failed to meet, or surpassed its required expenditure. Similarly, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) is to report annually to these committees the state expenditure provided each locality for an educational program meeting the SOQ. The Department and JLARC are to coordinate to ensure that their respective reports are based upon comparable data and are delivered together, or as closely following one another as practicable, to the appropriate standing committees.

The calculations will assist the Board of Education and the Attorney General in the implementation of their existing enforcement authority, set forth in the amended section and in Standard 8 (§ 22.1-253.13:8) of the SOQ.

The measure is based on 2002 Appropriation Act language (§ 1-54, Item 147 B7, B7e) and Recommendation 8 of the 2002 JLARC Review of Elementary and Secondary School Funding.


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