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

[Anonymous]

So the calculator error is a dumb mistake, but it looks like the grocery tax bill provided for alternative funding measures for schools (it just has not been finalized yet). Not mentioned in WaPo article but mentioned here.

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/01/31/virginia-public-schools-seek-solutions-after-dept-of-ed-error-leads-to-201-million-shortfall/

The bill summary here says that:

“The bill also provides, beginning February 1, 2023, an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for educational funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill.”

Danica Roem was the only person in house/senate to vote against the bill, and her concerns were related to transportation funding.

https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-cuts-grocery-tax-but-not-until-next-year-better-later-than-never

[Anonymous]

I can't believe some people's response to a BASIC BUT MAJOR IMPACTFUL ACCOUNTING ERROR--basically GOVERNING 101 is too start critiquing the schools! Politics there's just no disputing this is BONEHEADED governing--this is a major screw-up. I don't care if you're in govt or business, this is not even complex accounting--it's basically the equivalent of balancing your checkbook. Makes me wonder what's happening with all the state money!

[Anonymous]

I agree, 10:37, it's not clear to me how much of an impact this mistake will have - but certainly it shouldn't have happened. Money, collecting taxes/revenue and distributing funds, is fundamental to a government and to any business. This is a Big Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some people's response to a BASIC BUT MAJOR IMPACTFUL ACCOUNTING ERROR--basically GOVERNING 101 is too start critiquing the schools! Politics there's just no disputing this is BONEHEADED governing--this is a major screw-up. I don't care if you're in govt or business, this is not even complex accounting--it's basically the equivalent of balancing your checkbook. Makes me wonder what's happening with all the state money!

No one is criticizing the schools but FCPS at the top level wastes a ton of money every year. The number of students declines and they propose ever-larger budgets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some people's response to a BASIC BUT MAJOR IMPACTFUL ACCOUNTING ERROR--basically GOVERNING 101 is too start critiquing the schools! Politics there's just no disputing this is BONEHEADED governing--this is a major screw-up. I don't care if you're in govt or business, this is not even complex accounting--it's basically the equivalent of balancing your checkbook. Makes me wonder what's happening with all the state money!

No one is criticizing the schools but FCPS at the top level wastes a ton of money every year. The number of students declines and they propose ever-larger budgets.

Of course you are criticizing FCPS rather than Youngkin for this accounting mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe some people's response to a BASIC BUT MAJOR IMPACTFUL ACCOUNTING ERROR--basically GOVERNING 101 is too start critiquing the schools! Politics there's just no disputing this is BONEHEADED governing--this is a major screw-up. I don't care if you're in govt or business, this is not even complex accounting--it's basically the equivalent of balancing your checkbook. Makes me wonder what's happening with all the state money!

No one is criticizing the schools but FCPS at the top level wastes a ton of money every year. The number of students declines and they propose ever-larger budgets.

“No one is criticizing the schools,” she says in a post criticizing the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the calculator error is a dumb mistake, but it looks like the grocery tax bill provided for alternative funding measures for schools (it just has not been finalized yet). Not mentioned in WaPo article but mentioned here.

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/01/31/virginia-public-schools-seek-solutions-after-dept-of-ed-error-leads-to-201-million-shortfall/

The bill summary here says that:

“The bill also provides, beginning February 1, 2023, an allocation of state revenues to fund the distribution to localities for educational funding that would have been distributed to them absent the exemption created by the bill.”

Danica Roem was the only person in house/senate to vote against the bill, and her concerns were related to transportation funding.

https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-cuts-grocery-tax-but-not-until-next-year-better-later-than-never

You don’t understand how budgeting works. Those inflows to localities were already factored into the budgets for schools and localities when the localities determined how much funding they would give to the schools. The schools set their budgets based on what the locality has agreed to provide, what the state tells them to expect, and any other funding sources. When the state says to schools “oops, we’re not going to give you as much as we said we would, sorry,” the schools can’t just get more state funds through the localities because funds have already been accounted for in the budget.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

Or, if Youngkin and Richmond could count, then the school districts would be able to plan for this instead of scramble and cut whatever.

That's difficult, isn't it?

I disagree.

Fcps needs to cut this wasteful spendi g that has zero to do with education or teacher salaries.

We should never be paying millions to a company that exists to mine our kids data and to push political agendas on our minor children.

So what's that number? You and other posters (or just you posting multiple times) keep blathering on about these millions for surveys. I am not familiar with that number. Since you are, please cite them? ANd "political agendas" is subjective. Not to mention on both sides (ie. Youngkin's snitch line).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

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The amount of waste *already* within FCPS (vanity projects, “equity” studies) somehow doesn’t bother these people as much as an honest mistake that is being rectified. So typical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

+ a million

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

+100
The amount of waste *already* within FCPS (vanity projects, “equity” studies) somehow doesn’t bother these people as much as an honest mistake that is being rectified. So typical.

How is it being rectified? This is a major mistake that shows incompetence--you can't deflect from that. Anyone can talk a big talk, but what has he actually done in the basics of governance?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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?

+100
The amount of waste *already* within FCPS (vanity projects, “equity” studies) somehow doesn’t bother these people as much as an honest mistake that is being rectified. So typical.

You're deflecting the issue. The governor is supposed to manage accounting properly. It took others to notice the error.
If FCPS had a major accounting error like this you'd be all over it. It's not an honest mistake. It's incompetence.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t find fault with the Youngkin administration for this, you are a partisan hack. Period.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

+ a million

Yes, please! If only

[Anonymous]

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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.

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