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

[Anonymous]

You get what you vote for.

[Anonymous]

This was an error last year by the depqrtment of education, correct?

Aren't these employees who made the error just regular employees who worked during the last governor Northam's administration, and perhaps even earlier administrations? It seems like this mistake was made by employees who are non political employees, just regular accountig folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was an error last year by the depqrtment of education, correct?

Aren't these employees who made the error just regular employees who worked during the last governor Northam's administration, and perhaps even earlier administrations? It seems like this mistake was made by employees who are non political employees, just regular accountig folks.

Nope, it was made by his dept of ed folks in how they figured how the budget would work with his new suggested policies.

[Anonymous]

Did they cut funding, or did they promise more funding and not deliver?
Or was it a combo of the two?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they cut funding, or did they promise more funding and not deliver?
Or was it a combo of the two?

They cut funding based on the grocery tax reduction, and then accidentally told all of the school systems in the state they would be getting more than they actually would because they forgot to change the formula to account for the reduction.

[Anonymous]

It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

Still criticizing FCPS for a mistake by Richmond...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

Still criticizing FCPS for a mistake by Richmond...

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I love the word "bummer" as if it's this is some accident rather than basic governing incompetence by people. Why were there not more checks in place on something as basic as allocating budgets? This is not a disagreement about policies where you say one is bloated or whatever--it's basic, basic accounting at the STATE level. State budgets are something that gets checked all the way up the ladder, so SO many people had to not be good at their jobs for this to happen.

Anyway, if you noticed, many posters note that this hurts the rural schools a lot more--1) because they've built their planning on what Youngkin told them they could and now have to spend again on re-planning but with less money -- planning is expensive--you need accountants/budget analysts etc. 2) their margins are much smaller because they have fewer students, 3) The amount lost by the NoVA districts impacts these districts twice because NoVA subsidizes the rest of the state--so they are double hit --they have their own lower recalcuated budget, and then the recalculation of the NoVA subsidy that adds to their lower budget

Rural districts were already hurting because their school age population is really spread out and declining and schools are funded on a per pupil basis--this is just really bad for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

Still criticizing FCPS for a mistake by Richmond...

The two aren't mutually exclusive, and FCPS leadership has caused far more harm in recent years to families than the Youngkin administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

The money spent on equity consultants is not a waste. It’s to prevent your children from growing up holding the same anti-American viewpoints you express here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

Still criticizing FCPS for a mistake by Richmond...

+1
I love the word "bummer" as if it's this is some accident rather than basic governing incompetence by people. Why were there not more checks in place on something as basic as allocating budgets? This is not a disagreement about policies where you say one is bloated or whatever--it's basic, basic accounting at the STATE level. State budgets are something that gets checked all the way up the ladder, so SO many people had to not be good at their jobs for this to happen.

Anyway, if you noticed, many posters note that this hurts the rural schools a lot more--1) because they've built their planning on what Youngkin told them they could and now have to spend again on re-planning but with less money -- planning is expensive--you need accountants/budget analysts etc. 2) their margins are much smaller because they have fewer students, 3) The amount lost by the NoVA districts impacts these districts twice because NoVA subsidizes the rest of the state--so they are double hit --they have their own lower recalcuated budget, and then the recalculation of the NoVA subsidy that adds to their lower budget

Rural districts were already hurting because their school age population is really spread out and declining and schools are funded on a per pupil basis--this is just really bad for them.

The Democrats representing Fairfax have complained about NoVa subsidizing RoVa for decades. Fake concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

Still criticizing FCPS for a mistake by Richmond...

+1
I love the word "bummer" as if it's this is some accident rather than basic governing incompetence by people. Why were there not more checks in place on something as basic as allocating budgets? This is not a disagreement about policies where you say one is bloated or whatever--it's basic, basic accounting at the STATE level. State budgets are something that gets checked all the way up the ladder, so SO many people had to not be good at their jobs for this to happen.

Anyway, if you noticed, many posters note that this hurts the rural schools a lot more--1) because they've built their planning on what Youngkin told them they could and now have to spend again on re-planning but with less money -- planning is expensive--you need accountants/budget analysts etc. 2) their margins are much smaller because they have fewer students, 3) The amount lost by the NoVA districts impacts these districts twice because NoVA subsidizes the rest of the state--so they are double hit --they have their own lower recalcuated budget, and then the recalculation of the NoVA subsidy that adds to their lower budget

Rural districts were already hurting because their school age population is really spread out and declining and schools are funded on a per pupil basis--this is just really bad for them.

Excellent analysis but they voted for him and likely want to see their schools fail anyway so they can all homeschool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

The money spent on equity consultants is not a waste. It’s to prevent your children from growing up holding the same anti-American viewpoints you express here.

It's hardly anti-American to point out that FCPS wastes money on consultants or that Tholen and Corbett-Sanders are hypocrites. And, while equal opportunity may be an American value, "equal outcomes" as demanded by the consultants hired by FCPS is a Communist one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

Still criticizing FCPS for a mistake by Richmond...

+1
I love the word "bummer" as if it's this is some accident rather than basic governing incompetence by people. Why were there not more checks in place on something as basic as allocating budgets? This is not a disagreement about policies where you say one is bloated or whatever--it's basic, basic accounting at the STATE level. State budgets are something that gets checked all the way up the ladder, so SO many people had to not be good at their jobs for this to happen.

Anyway, if you noticed, many posters note that this hurts the rural schools a lot more--1) because they've built their planning on what Youngkin told them they could and now have to spend again on re-planning but with less money -- planning is expensive--you need accountants/budget analysts etc. 2) their margins are much smaller because they have fewer students, 3) The amount lost by the NoVA districts impacts these districts twice because NoVA subsidizes the rest of the state--so they are double hit --they have their own lower recalcuated budget, and then the recalculation of the NoVA subsidy that adds to their lower budget

Rural districts were already hurting because their school age population is really spread out and declining and schools are funded on a per pupil basis--this is just really bad for them.

The Democrats representing Fairfax have complained about NoVa subsidizing RoVa for decades. Fake concern.

I care about education and the well-being of children everywhere. Just as a decent human and as a person who knows the children form the future adult citizenry. I've seen people just note that districts that are actively hostile to NoVa are financially supported by NoVA--not just in the education budget, but all budgets. The hypocrisy is hard to miss. I don't disagree with budget redistribution--though I do think we need to solve problems associated with rural districts population declines and that low populated areas should not have such a disproportionate representation in congress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bummer but it will be spread across the entire state and the FCPS budget alone is $3.5 billion. And perhaps the need for cuts will fall attention to some of the unnecessary fat in FCPS, which wastes tons of money on central administration and third-party “equity” consultants who serve no useful purpose other than to allow School board members to claim they care about equity when in fact you have members like Tholen and Corbett Sanders who’ve spent their entire time in office protecting their own wealthier neighborhoods.

Still criticizing FCPS for a mistake by Richmond...

+1
I love the word "bummer" as if it's this is some accident rather than basic governing incompetence by people. Why were there not more checks in place on something as basic as allocating budgets? This is not a disagreement about policies where you say one is bloated or whatever--it's basic, basic accounting at the STATE level. State budgets are something that gets checked all the way up the ladder, so SO many people had to not be good at their jobs for this to happen.

Anyway, if you noticed, many posters note that this hurts the rural schools a lot more--1) because they've built their planning on what Youngkin told them they could and now have to spend again on re-planning but with less money -- planning is expensive--you need accountants/budget analysts etc. 2) their margins are much smaller because they have fewer students, 3) The amount lost by the NoVA districts impacts these districts twice because NoVA subsidizes the rest of the state--so they are double hit --they have their own lower recalcuated budget, and then the recalculation of the NoVA subsidy that adds to their lower budget

Rural districts were already hurting because their school age population is really spread out and declining and schools are funded on a per pupil basis--this is just really bad for them.

The Democrats representing Fairfax have complained about NoVa subsidizing RoVa for decades. Fake concern.

Why is it fake? The LCI chart very clearly shows what the state is paying to each jurisdiction and taxes coming into the state from each jurisdiction are also very easily accounted for. The bank of Fairfax meme exists for a reason. If they don't want the money, Fairfax will be happy to have it back. All education funding decisions have been made because of complaints by ROVA that they need more money.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99540/school_district_funding_in_virginia_0.pdf
https://www.vml.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Local%20Composite%20Index.pdf