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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None. Kids aren’t widgets in a factory. Keep schools smaller and redo boundaries.

Push the CB and Youngkin to properly fund our schools. [/quote]

All across the US, school funding and school spending is primarily local - your real estate taxes. Has very little to do with Richmond. [/quote]

The CB definitely needs to step up, but so does Youngkin: 
https://www.apsva.us/post/superintendent-presents-proposed-fy-2025-budget-to-maintain-core-services/
[i]"According to an independent review by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), Virginia school divisions receive less K-12 funding per student than the 50-state average, the regional average, and three of Virginia’s five bordering states. School divisions in other states receive 14% more per student than school divisions in Virginia, on average. This equates to about $1,900 less per student for Virginia. [b]The JLARC estimates that annually, APS is underfunded by approximately $51 million.[/b]"[/i]

https://www.arlnow.com/2024/03/04/aps-superintendent-says-lean-budget-proposal-reflects-state-funding-uncertainties/
[i]"Youngkin’s conservative budget comes despite a recent report from the Joint Legislative Audit & Review Commission, which found Virginia gives less funding to schools than the national average, using outdated models from the Great Recession, Durán noted.

On top of this statewide deficiency, APS receives less funding from the state, says School Board member Mary Kadera. [b]State funding accounts for 29% and 27%, respectively, of the budgets for the public school systems in Loudoun and Fairfax counties, compared to 15% for APS[/b], she said."[/i]

https://jlarc.virginia.gov/landing-2023-virginias-k-12-funding-formula.asp
[i]Formula does not adequately account for local labor costs

[b]An effective education funding formula should also account for higher labor costs[/b]. Virginia’s SOQ formula attempts to account for higher labor costs in some divisions through the cost of competing adjustment, which provides varying funding increases to divisions in and around Northern Virginia.

The cost of competing adjustment provides less additional funding than actual salary differences. [b]For example, Arlington County Public Schools receives a 9.83 percent adjustment for teachers’ salaries but its actual labor costs are 40 percent more than the average Virginia school division’s labor cost.[/b][/i]

[i]Virginia is one of only nine states that use a staffing-based formula, and some academic experts now view it as an outdated approach. The vast majority of states (34) use a student-based funding formula that allocates divisions a specified amount of funding per student (figure). Seven states use hybrids of the staffing- and student-based approaches or another approach.

[b]A well-designed student-based funding model would be more accurate, more transparent, and easier to maintain over time than Virginia’s current staffing-based formula.[/b][/i]

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