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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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