Direct Aid to Public Education [197]
Secretarial Area: Education
Operating Budget Summary
This table shows the Governor's proposed budget for the next two years and the agency's official budget for the previous six years.
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Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
2008-2010 2009 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly $5,607,593,113 $1,496,381,028 $7,103,974,141
2008-2010 2010 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly $4,769,832,540 $1,691,260,353 $6,461,092,893
2010-2012 2011 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly $4,713,346,558 $1,535,005,514 $6,248,352,072
2010-2012 2012 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly $4,891,155,762 $1,440,475,628 $6,331,631,390
2012-2014 2013 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly $5,172,176,944 $1,513,919,428 $6,686,096,372
2012-2014 2014 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly $5,240,274,596 $1,551,511,573 $6,791,786,169
2014-2016 2015 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly $5,498,605,141 $1,532,228,378 $7,030,833,519
2014-2016 2015 Base Budget $5,342,473,570 $1,472,363,713 $6,814,837,283
2014-2016 2015 Governor's Amendments $227,353,361 $9,864,665 $237,218,026
2014-2016 2015 General Assembly Adjustments ($71,221,790) $50,000,000 ($21,221,790)
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly $5,590,497,356 $1,495,614,825 $7,086,112,181
2014-2016 2016 Base Budget $5,342,473,570 $1,472,363,713 $6,814,837,283
2014-2016 2016 Governor's Amendments $272,957,123 $13,251,112 $286,208,235
2014-2016 2016 General Assembly Adjustments ($24,933,337) $10,000,000 ($14,933,337)
Positions Budget Summary
Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
2008-2010 2009 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2008-2010 2010 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2010-2012 2011 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2010-2012 2012 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2012-2014 2013 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2012-2014 2014 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2015 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2015 Base Budget 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2015 Governor's Amendments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2015 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2016 Base Budget 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2016 Governor's Amendments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2016 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
Operating Budget Addenda (in order of greatest impact)
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Update costs of the Standards of Quality (SOQ) Decision Package
  Provides for the biennial update of the Standards of Quality (SOQ). The SOQ programs are updated biennially to reflect changes in enrollment, funded instructional salaries, school instructional and support expenditures, and other technical factors. These adjustments address the cost of continuing current programs with the required data revisions and do not reflect changes in policy.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $277,335,931 $297,937,474
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Update retirement contribution rates for Standards of Quality related positions Decision Package
  Adjusts the funds needed to support the employer rate change from 11.66 percent to 14.50 percent for the state share of contributions paid on behalf of public school teachers for retirement. This adjustment also includes a reduction from the employer rate change from 10.23 percent to 9.40 percent for the state share of contributions paid on behalf of non-professional support positions for retirement.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $80,645,463 $80,964,613
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Update Lottery proceeds for public education Decision Package
  Adjusts funding to reflect an increase in the estimate of Lottery proceeds.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($38,000,000) ($37,999,990)
Nongeneral Fund $38,000,000 $38,000,000
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Update costs of incentive programs Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for certain educational programs exceeding the foundation of the Standards of Quality. These programs are designed to address educational needs of specific targeted student populations. Funding for these programs is primarily formula-driven and subject to changes in fall membership, participation rates, and test scores.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($78,586,613) ($70,422,230)
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Elminate nonpersonal services inflation factor in Standards of Quality rebenchmarking Decision Package
  Eliminates the use of nonpersonal inflation factors used to calculate costs during the rebenchmarking of the Standards of Quality program each biennium.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($38,085,562) ($38,340,071)
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Reduce teacher retirement contribution from the Literary Fund Decision Package
  Reduces the teacher retirement contribution from the Literary Fund to match available resources.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $18,135,335 $14,748,888
Nongeneral Fund ($18,135,335) ($14,748,888)
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Capture savings from nonparticipation in the Virginia Preschool Initiative Decision Package
  Reduces funding appropriated to the Virginia Preschool Initiative to recover unclaimed funds from nonparticipating school divisions. This adjustment maintains the existing non-participation rate assumption of 25.43 percent.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($24,198,595) ($24,301,740)
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Provide Literary Fund loans for school construction Decision Package
  Provides funding from the Literary Fund for direct loans for school construction by reducing the Literary Fund's contribution to teacher retirement.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $10,000,000 $10,000,000
Nongeneral Fund ($10,000,000) ($10,000,000)
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Update composite index of local ability-to-pay Decision Package
  Updates accounts in Direct Aid for Public Education based on a biennial recalculation of the composite index, a measure of local ability-to-pay used to distribute funding to local school divisions.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $18,283,509 $18,529,229
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Adjust sales tax revenues for public education Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for local school divisions based on the latest sales tax projections provided by the Department of Taxation. The amounts represent the net change in state funding, as required by the Basic Aid formula.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $4,670,146 $24,231,902
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Eliminate Cost of Competing Adjustment (COCA) for support positions Decision Package
  Eliminates funding that supports the cost of competing adjustment of 24.61 percent for support salaries in Virginia school divisions located within the common labor market of the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($10,232,631) ($10,453,621)
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Adjust funding for group life and retiree health care credit rate changes Decision Package
  Adjusts funding to support employer rate changes related to the Retiree Health Care Credit from 1.11 percent to 1.18 percent and the Group Life employer rate 0.48 percent to 0.53 percent.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $3,523,209 $3,543,785
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Provide instructional specialists at underperforming schools Decision Package
  Provides the state share of a reading or math specialist for schools that have been denied accreditation or have been accredited with warning for three consecutive years. The amount also includes funding for 20 schools accredited with warning for two consecutive years that have shown little or no improvement.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,834,538 $1,834,538
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Update sales tax distribution for school-age population estimate for the new biennium Decision Package
  Updates the sales tax distribution for the school-age population estimate for the new biennium.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,405,944 $1,405,958
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Update costs of categorical programs Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for educational programs that exceed the foundation of the Standards of Quality. State or federal statutes or regulations mandate most categorical programs. These adjustments update the cost of continuing the current programs with the required data revisions.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($1,385,110) ($729,409)
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Update costs for National Board Certification grants Decision Package
  Updates the funding needed for National Board Certification grants based on the actual number of eligible teachers.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $575,000 $575,000
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Provide grants for Teach for America teachers Decision Package
  Provides funding for grants to localities who have signed contracts with Teach for America, a nationwide nonprofit organization focused on placing teachers in low-income areas. The grant funding will offset the fees charged to school divisions by Teach for America for each new hire.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $500,000 $500,000
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Expand Communities in Schools to Petersburg Decision Package
  Provides funding to establish a Communities in Schools affiliate in the Petersburg school division.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $269,400 $269,400
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Expand positive behavioral interventions and supports initiative Decision Package
  Expands the number of schools participating in training for public school teachers and administrators on implementation of a positive behavioral interventions and supports program that reduces disruptive behavior in the classroom.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $256,960 $256,960
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Expand PluggedInVA Program Decision Package
  Provides funding for 20 additional PluggedInVA grants to increase adult education opportunities.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $235,125 $235,125
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Update costs for supplemental education initiatives Decision Package
  Updates the cost of financial assistance for supplemental education.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($217,000) ($217,000)
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Consolidate grant programs Decision Package
  Combines grant programs to provide a single source for grants for extended learning time models as well as alternative instructional delivery or school governance models. A companion action is included in the Central Office Operations budget.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $200,812 $200,812
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Expand the GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program (GRASP) Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to the GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program (GRASP) to provide additional financial aid, scholarships and counseling to students and families in need.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $187,500 $187,500
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Amend Project Discovery language Decision Package
  Provides flexibility to distribute funding to community action agencies based on performance measures established by the Board of Directors of Project Discovery.
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Appropriate additional Lottery proceeds General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reflects an additional $25 million the first year and $10 million the second year from Lottery Proceeds. The Lottery Board projected an additional $15.5 million in FY 2014, which was reflected in the amendments to Senate Bill 29 and brings the 2012-14 biennial total to $1.033 billion. This amendment would bring the projection for the 2014-16 biennium up to $1.035 billion.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($24,994,874) ($9,997,275)
Nongeneral Fund $25,000,000 $10,000,000
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Literary Fund - Sale of Unclaimed Property General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment accounts for an additional $25 million in anticipated revenue from the sale of unclaimed property as Treasury begins final due diligence efforts to locate owners on the last group of accounts related to the large demutualizations of insurance companies between 2003 and 2008. Treasury estimates that during FY 2015 it will be able to identify and liquidate sufficient shares of stock, together with the accrued dividends, to transfer $25 million in unclaimed property proceeds to the Literary Fund, similar to the transfers in 2009 and 2010 from the first deliveries of demutualization proceeds.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($25,000,000) $0
Nongeneral Fund $25,000,000 $0
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Remove school construction loan funding General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment removes funding for Literary Fund school construction loans as proposed in Senate Bill 5003 as introduced. No school construction loans have been funded since FY 2008.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($10,000,000) ($10,000,000)
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Eliminate strategic compensation grants funding General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment eliminates funding for the Strategic Compensation Grants Initiative. Thirteen school divisions applied for and were awarded grants totaling $4.5 million in FY 2014.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($7,500,000) ($7,500,000)
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Use three-year average free lunch for K-3 class size reduction initiative General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reflects savings by using a three-year average of free lunch eligibility rather than a one-year snapshot of free lunch eligibility in the calculation of the K-3 Class Size Reduction program. Required K-3 school ratios for the program range from 19 to 1 for schools with 30 percent to 45 percent of students eligible for free lunch to 14 to 1 for schools with 75 percent of more students eligible for free lunch.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($5,174,936) ($5,182,985)
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Phase-In Group Life and RHCC Rates General Assembly Adjustment
  Consistent with actions taken related to other Other Post Employment Benefits, this amendment reflects the savings from phasing in the employer rates for Group Life and Retiree Health Care Credit at 0.48 percent for Group Life and 1.06 percent for Retiree Health Care Credit, which are 90 percent of the rates in the budget as introduced.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($4,884,011) ($4,804,379)
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Additional funding for Virginia Preschool Initiative General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment funds for FY 2016 Virginia Preschool Initiative for At-Risk Four-Year-Olds (VPI) slots at the greater of the values in the budget as introduced or FY 2014 actual slots used, and on a prorated based in FY 2015, and continues to allow expansion grants if any balances remain, per existing language. For FY 2015, the funds allow for approximately one-third of the hold harmless slots to be restored. In addition, the Department may allocate to such divisions additional funds if balances are available.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $997,586 $3,631,581
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Technical - K-3 Class Size Program Updated for VRS Rates General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical amendment provides funding to increase the K-3 Class Size Reduction initiative allocations to reflect updating the VRS benefit rates for instructional positions.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $2,308,553 $2,240,317
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Update sales tax figures General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides a net of $2.0 million the first year and $2.3 million the second year from the general fund to reflect additional sales tax revenues collected as a result of 1) the passage of Senate Bill 100 related to satellite television equipment, and 2) an adjustment to the expected impact of the 'Amazon' sales tax bill. The additional sales tax revenues for public education from these components total $4.5 million the first year and $5.2 million the second year and the SOQ Basic Aid offset is estimated at $2.5 million the first year and $2.8 million in the second year. Companion amendments to the front page and Item 3-5.03 reflect the revenues and transfer amounts.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,963,925 $2,256,126
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Provide funding for year round schools implementation and planning General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment adds to funding in the introduced budget for extended learning time models to provide for start-up grants of up to $300,000 per school per year, depending on the extended school year model adopted and would cap planning grants at $50,000 per school division. In addition, the amendment directs the Department of Education to account for extended school year models in the rebenchmarking of the SOQ in future biennia. This amendment supports the finding in the 2012 JLARC study on year round schooling that such schedules can improve student performance in schools with high percentages of at-risk students. Seven school divisions applied for and received a planning grant in FY 2014 for year round schooling.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,000,000 $2,400,000
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Petersburg School Services Agreement Incentive General Assembly Adjustment
  In order to benefit from the operational efficiencies that can allow more resources to support improved student achievement levels and in lieu of transferring certain Petersburg City Schools to the Opportunity Educational Institution, this amendment provides funding in support of transitional incentive costs of a School Services Agreement (SSA) and Tuition Contract to be negotiated between Petersburg and Chesterfield. Upon signature of a Memorandum of Understanding by the two local governments and two school divisions towards development of a more detailed on-going Agreement, the parties may jointly apply for transitional incentive costs which may be based on part of the difference in per pupil spending between the two school divisions. The parameters of the Agreement may include components included in the long-standing Fairfax County and City SSA, under which Fairfax County Public Schools manages and operates the schools, hires and pays staff and develops curriculum, while the City School Board and Superintendent are responsible for the management of the contract and the city-owned buildings. For FY 2012, total operating spending from all sources for Chesterfield Schools was $8,755 per pupil (with FY 2012 enrollment of 58,432 students), compared with $10,655 per pupil in Petersburg (4,104 students), which includes on-going federal School Improvement Grant allocations to raise achievement in persistently lowest achieving schools.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $600,000
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Technical Adjustment - Radford transportation costs General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical amendment adjusts funding to correct for new information provided on February 6, 2014, related to Radford City Schools' pupil transportation system to include transporting all students on yellow school buses. Previously, some students used the city transit system.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $278,570 $285,029
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Provide funding to Project Discovery program General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment restores funding for Project Discovery of Virginia, which helps at-risk students stay in high school and enter college. Project Discovery alumni graduate from high school and attend college at higher rates than their socioeconomic peers. Federal support has been eliminated or reduced in recent years, including a loss of $435,000 from the federal College Access Challenge Grant as Virginia did not meet the maintenance of effort requirement. As a result, program reserves were depleted in FY 2014, leaving the program's financial future in doubt. This amendment will support existing programs, including Abingdon, Charlottesville, Chesapeake, Franklin, Henrico, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Shenandoah, Tazewell, Williamsburg, and others; support continued expansion identified in a 2009 SCHEV study to be funded under the now eliminated federal college access challenge grant, such as Page, Shenandoah, Fredericksburg, Colonial Heights, Petersburg, and Dinwiddie; and if possible support expansion into newer areas also identified in the 2009 SCHEV study, such as Campbell, Halifax, Hanover, and Spotsylvania.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $275,000 $275,000
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Juvenile Detention Teacher Staffing General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment further reduces funding by about 1 percent for teacher staffing in the state operated juvenile detention centers. There were an average of 334 students in the 23 centers in 2012-13. Language also requires a report.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($250,000) ($250,000)
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Provide funding for An Achievable Dream program General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $500,000 the second year from the general fund for the Achievable Dream program operated in partnership with Newport News Public Schools in lieu of a like amount of credits from the Neighborhood Assistance Program Tax program. The intent of this amendment is to have the Department of Education to provide the payment directly to the Achievable Dream Middle and High School, Inc.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $500,000
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Level fund the Plugged In Virginia initiative General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment captures savings by level funding the Plugged In Virginia initiative to the current fiscal year 2014 adopted amount.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($235,539) ($236,540)
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Early Childhood STEM Program Pilots (Wolf Trap) General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides funding for Loudoun, Fairfax, Petersburg, Wythe, and Accomack Public Schools to support implementation of Wolf Trap's model STEM education program for kindergarten and preschool students.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $325,000
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eLearning Backpack - Include High ESL/Free Lunch Schools General Assembly Adjustment
  To address the additional technology needs of high schools where fewer students have their own technology devices to bring to school, this amendment adds additional debt service in the second year to add 12 additional high schools in eight school divisions -- Accomack, Arlington, Fairfax, Galax, Prince William, Alexandria, Harrisonburg, Winchester -- that are in school divisions with over 15 percent of students in the English as a Second Language count and also having free lunch eligibility for the school of over one-third of the students -- to the Virginia eLearning Backpack Initiative beginning in FY 2015.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $250,000
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Provide funding for Jobs for Virginia Graduates initiative General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides partial funding towards Governor McAuliffe's proposal to increase funding for Jobs for Virginia Graduates statewide program for at-risk youth who seek to make the most of their high school education and pursue career and post-secondary educational interests.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $200,000
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Remove first year funding for GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program (GRASP) General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment captures savings of $187,500 in the first year as a result of level funding the GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program (GRASP) at the current FY 2014 adopted amount of $212,500.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($187,500) $0
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Technical Adjustment - Composite Index Data General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical amendment adjusts funding to correct for revised True Value data from Charlotte, Richmond County, and Hampton City from the Department of Taxation that results in a recalculation of the Composite Index.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $81,436 $49,789
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VA STEAM Academy Phase 2 Planning General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides funding to implement the strategic plan to establish and validate the Virginia STEAM Academy, which would be a residential facility designed to foster the educational development of Virginia high school students who are academically talented in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and applied mathematics. It would also serve all schools in the Commonwealth through research and outreach. This funding would be used to establish the leadership team, carry out annual summer residential academies for middle school students, and continue with the buildings and grounds architectural design work.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $100,000 $0
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Additional funding for VA Student Training and Refurbishment Program General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides additional funding for the Virginia Student Training and Refurbishment Program, a collaborative effort to introduce students to the field of information technology, with the goal of creating a sustainable educational program that takes surplus hardware from state agencies or private companies in order to offer students IT repair certification training. Once refurbished, the computers are available for school use or other community needs.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $25,000


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