Glenn Youngkin's Policies cost schools across VA $202 Million

[Anonymous]

Youngkin cut taxes on grocery bills, but neglected to remove that money from the calculators provided to schools to help them estimate their budgets for the coming years -- they were off by $202 Million. That's how much less Virginia students will be getting because of his idiotic policies (and that's just the one they forgot to include in their calculator).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/31/virginia-schools-state-aid-error/

[Anonymous]

Oh well. Maybe we don’t have to waste as much money next year on stupid initiatives like the Lewis Academy after all. Aren’t they chartering buses at taxpayer expense to send HS kids down to Alabama for a conference this month?

[Anonymous]

This is just absolutely ridiculously bad governing at the basics. The schools it's really going to hurt are the smaller, rural districts that are heavily subsidized by the state.

[Anonymous]

Despite having the 4th largest budget (give or take…it’s Wiki) Virginia is smack in the middle for education spending. We can do better. The only plus is that we used to be in the bottom 10 states on education spending, so either we have improved or other states are spending less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2022-08-26/which-states-invest-the-most-in-their-students

[Anonymous]

For all his campaigning on increasing teacher salaries and funding for education specialists, all Youngkin has actually done is cut school funding. Which was utterly predictable but a whole lot of stupid people fell for it anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just absolutely ridiculously bad governing at the basics. The schools it's really going to hurt are the smaller, rural districts that are heavily subsidized by the state.

Yes, it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Despite having the 4th largest budget (give or take…it’s Wiki) Virginia is smack in the middle for education spending. We can do better. The only plus is that we used to be in the bottom 10 states on education spending, so either we have improved or other states are spending less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2022-08-26/which-states-invest-the-most-in-their-students

Some of this is salaries. Sure, salaries in our DC area are high(er), but teacher salaries in the rest of Virginia aren't. So you can't compare our spending to top states like NY and CA where they have to spend more on teacher salaries due to the COL.

There's a lot that parents would change if we could. I wish we got a vote or even a referendum on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just absolutely ridiculously bad governing at the basics. The schools it's really going to hurt are the smaller, rural districts that are heavily subsidized by the state.

What else would you expect from a PE guy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite having the 4th largest budget (give or take…it’s Wiki) Virginia is smack in the middle for education spending. We can do better. The only plus is that we used to be in the bottom 10 states on education spending, so either we have improved or other states are spending less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2022-08-26/which-states-invest-the-most-in-their-students

Some of this is salaries. Sure, salaries in our DC area are high(er), but teacher salaries in the rest of Virginia aren't. So you can't compare our spending to top states like NY and CA where they have to spend more on teacher salaries due to the COL.

There's a lot that parents would change if we could. I wish we got a vote or even a referendum on this.

There are plenty of LCOL areas in upstate NY. It’s very comparable to VA in that respect.

[Anonymous]

I don't even understand cutting grocery taxes. Did anyone even care about that?! Everyone I know would vote for cutting car tax though. That's a ridiculous and expensive hassle. A lot of people are registering in other states instead to dodge the tax and it's also preventing people from buying newer cars (it did for dh and I!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin cut taxes on grocery bills, but neglected to remove that money from the calculators provided to schools to help them estimate their budgets for the coming years -- they were off by $202 Million. That's how much less Virginia students will be getting because of his idiotic policies (and that's just the one they forgot to include in their calculator).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/31/virginia-schools-state-aid-error/

That was a feature, not a bug, OP.

If you want to know what’s going to happen to Virginia schools, look at what Sam Brownback did to Kansas as governor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is just absolutely ridiculously bad governing at the basics. The schools it's really going to hurt are the smaller, rural districts that are heavily subsidized by the state.

What else would you expect from a PE guy?

He tried to hide his background. But he's been the head of a PE firm for decades.

This is what Virginia gets for electing him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is just absolutely ridiculously bad governing at the basics. The schools it's really going to hurt are the smaller, rural districts that are heavily subsidized by the state.

Yes, it is.

He's a con man who catered to the basest elements in Virginia. And he's a horrible governor.

[Anonymous]

You had one job...

[Anonymous]

This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.