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
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 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly $5,405,446,474 $1,616,964,155 $7,022,410,629
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly $5,520,990,008 $1,786,229,047 $7,307,219,055
2016-2018 2017 Chapter 836, 2017 Acts of Assembly $5,675,304,086 $1,698,600,564 $7,373,904,650
2016-2018 2017 Previous Legislative Appropriation $5,838,890,723 $1,617,040,368 $7,455,931,091
2016-2018 2017 Governor's Amendments ($162,822,291) $73,560,196 ($89,262,095)
2016-2018 2017 General Assembly Adjustments ($764,346) $8,000,000 $7,235,654
2016-2018 2018 Chapter 836, 2017 Acts of Assembly $6,030,019,145 $1,618,592,256 $7,648,611,401
2016-2018 2018 Previous Legislative Appropriation $6,131,864,402 $1,586,746,495 $7,718,610,897
2016-2018 2018 Governor's Amendments ($110,362,783) $31,845,761 ($78,517,022)
2016-2018 2018 General Assembly Adjustments $8,517,526 $0 $8,517,526
Positions Budget Summary
Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
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 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2017 Chapter 836, 2017 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2017 Previous Legislative Appropriation 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2017 Governor's Amendments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2017 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2018 Chapter 836, 2017 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2018 Previous Legislative Appropriation 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2018 Governor's Amendments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2018 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
Operating Budget Addenda (in order of greatest impact)
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Remove salary increase for public school positions Decision Package
  Removes funding provided for the state's share of a two percent salary increase for instructional and support positions recognized by the Standards of Quality (SOQ) funding model, which would have been effective December 1, 2016. Pursuant to Item 475 P.2., Chapter 780, 2016 Acts of Assembly, these amounts are to be unallotted if a revenue reforecast is required.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($49,280,917) ($85,994,749)
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Update Lottery proceeds for public education Decision Package
  Adjusts funding to reflect an increase in the estimate of Lottery proceeds by $47.1 million in 2017 and $5.3 million in 2018. The 2017 increase reflects $33.2 million additional Lottery revenues collected in 2016, $5.3 million additional Lottery revenues projected for 2017, and $8.6 million shown as cash on the balance sheet for the Lottery Proceeds Fund.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($47,055,990) ($5,264,528)
Nongeneral Fund $47,053,974 $5,264,539
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Increase Literary Fund support for school employee retirement contributions Decision Package
  Adjusts the amount of Literary Funds used to support public school employee retirement contributions based on the latest estimates provided by the Department of Treasury.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($25,000,000) ($25,000,000)
Nongeneral Fund $25,000,000 $25,000,000
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Provide bonus for public school positions Decision Package
  Provides funding for the state's share of a one-time one and one-half percent bonus for instructional and support positions recognized by the Standards of Quality (SOQ) funding model and Academic Year Governor's Schools, effective December 1, 2017.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $55,472,497
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Capture savings from revised student enrollment projections Decision Package
  Updates Standards of Quality costs using enrollment projections based on the latest fall membership counts, which are lower than projected for 2017.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($14,710,828) ($19,903,966)
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Update sales tax revenues for public education based on May 2016 forecast Decision Package
  Updates sales tax dedicated to public education based on the Department of Taxation's May 2016 education sales tax forecast.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($11,955,874) ($17,789,694)
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Update sales tax revenues for public education based on October 2016 forecast Decision Package
  Updates sales tax dedicated to public education based on the Department of Taxation's October 2016 education sales tax forecast.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($3,589,464) ($9,619,476)
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Update program participation for Remedial Summer School and English as a Second Language Decision Package
  Updates costs of the Remedial Summer School and English as a Second Language programs to reflect actual enrollment for FY 2017 and revised projections for FY 2018.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($2,825,279) ($3,490,923)
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Supplant general fund appropriation with increased DMV revenues for driver education Decision Package
  Supplants general fund support with increased levels of Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) revenues for the portion of Basic Aid that supports driver education.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($1,506,222) ($1,581,222)
Nongeneral Fund $1,506,222 $1,581,222
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Update costs of Lottery programs Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for Lottery-funded programs based on actual and updated projections for participation.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($4,927,646) ($164,610)
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Update sales tax revenues for public education based on December 2016 forecast Decision Package
  Updates sales tax dedicated to public education based on the Department of Taxation's December 2016 education sales tax forecast.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $2,942,945
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Capture savings from teacher improvement initiative appropriation Decision Package
  Captures general fund savings from the teacher improvement initiative appropriation based on lower than anticipated program participation.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($2,025,000)
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Update sales tax distribution for school age population Decision Package
  Updates the sales tax distribution to local school divisions based on the latest yearly estimate of school age population.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $1,927,800
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Update cost of National Board Certification Program Decision Package
  Updates the cost of bonus payments under the National Board Certification Program based on the actual number of classroom teachers in Virginia's public schools who hold certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($870,000) ($785,000)
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Increase funding for the Teacher Residency Program Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to support the effort of attracting, training, and retaining quality teachers in under-performing schools.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $1,000,000
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Update costs of categorical programs Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for certain 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 ($404,962) ($138,801)
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Provide Funding for Summer Cyber Camps Decision Package
  Provides funding to continue state support of summer cyber camps. These camps were established in the summer of 2016 using one-time funding from available program balances in the Targeted Extended School Year grants program.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $480,000
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Update costs of incentive programs Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for certain educational programs that exceed 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 ($350,787) ($97,920)
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Capture savings from math and science teacher recruitment initiative pilot appropriation Decision Package
  Captures general fund savings from Item 138.G.3 of Chapter 780, 2016 Acts of Assembly. As of FY 2017, this appropriation is no longer required for its intended purpose.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($400,000) $0
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Repurpose math and science teacher recruitment initiative pilot appropriation to fund the state's Algebra Readiness Diagnostic Test (ARDT) contract Decision Package
  Repurposes appropriation from Item 138.G.3 of Chapter 780, 2016 Acts of Assembly, to fund administration of the Algebra Readiness Diagnostic Test (ARDT), which will allow the state to continue offering a required algebra diagnostic test at no cost to localities.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($400,000)
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Correct data used in VPI calculations for the City of Buena Vista Decision Package
  Corrects Head Start data used in the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) calculations for the City of Buena Vista.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $55,678 $37,572
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Fund planning for a Governor's School for Entrepreneurial Leadership Decision Package
  Provides funding to plan for a summer Governor’s School for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $32,292
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Add Language in the Appropriation Act to Expand the use of Traineeships for Education of Special Education Personnel Decision Package
  Adds budget language to allow full expenditure of the current Special Education Endorsement Program appropriation by more accurately reflecting actual student workload and current higher education tuition rates.
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Add language to redirect uncommitted Teach for America appropriation to the Teacher Residency program Decision Package
  Adds budget language to redirect any uncommitted Teach for America (TFA) appropriation to the Teacher Residency program in anticipation that TFA will not expand to Virginia in time to use the 2016-2018 biennium appropriation. Any commitments to TFA would take precedence over redirection of funds to Teacher Residency.
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Technical Language Amendment to COCA rates Decision Package
  Modifies language to properly reflect that the Cost of Competing Adjustment (COCA) for support positions is funded in both years of the 2016-2018 biennium.
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Reverse 1.5 % Bonus General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reverses the $55.5 million in the second year for the 1.5 percent bonus proposed in the budget as introduced. Companion amendments re-direct the funding as well as additional resources to a 2.0 percent salary increase and additional Lottery Per Pupil Amount funding.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($55,472,497)
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Increase Lottery PPA General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $34.1 million the second year from the general fund to increase the Lottery Per Pupil Allocation (PPA), bringing the total up to $191.3 million in the second year, which is 35 percent of the total Lottery Proceeds Fund.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $34,099,139
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Provide State's Share of 2% Raise for Teachers General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides funding for the state's share of a 2.0 percent compensation supplement, for SOQ instructional and support positions and Academic Year Governor's School instructional and support positions. The amount of state funding is calculated based on an effective date of February 15, 2018. School divisions shall have the flexibility to qualify for these state funds if they certify that they have provided or will provide an increase of at least 2.0 percent at some point during the 2016-18 biennium. In other words, at least 2.0 percent in fiscal year 2017 or at least 2.0 percent in fiscal year 2018, or via two separate increases in each fiscal year, such as 1.0 percent in fiscal year 2017 and 1.0 percent in fiscal year 2018 that together add to at least 2.0 percent. Companion amendments reverse the 1.5 percent bonus proposed in the budget as introduced and add $34.1 million to the Supplemental Lottery Per Pupil Allocation.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $31,981,550
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Increase Literary Fund contributions for school employee retirement contributions General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment increases by $8.0 million the amount of Literary Fund revenue used to pay SOQ teacher retirement costs in fiscal year 2017. The Board of Education has not issued any Literary Fund school construction loans in fiscal year 2017 as originally included in the forecast.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($8,000,000) $0
Nongeneral Fund $8,000,000 $0
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Provide funds for Small School Division Enrollment Loss General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $7.3 million the first year from the general fund to eligible small school divisions that have had a five percent or more decline in their average daily membership from 2011 to 2016.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $7,258,009 $0
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Reduce funds for Project Graduation General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reduces funding for Project Graduation remedial education by half to phase-out the program. Project Graduation was created in 2003 to provide school divisions funding to provide instructional support for students who received passing grades for a standard credit-bearing course but failed the required Standards of Learning (SOL) assessment needed to earn verified credit to complete their diploma requirements.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($1,387,242)
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Reduce new funding for Teacher Residency General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reduces the $1,000,000 in new funding proposed in the introduced budget for the Teacher Residency program by $500,000 in the second year.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($500,000)
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Eliminate New Funding for Cyber Camps General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment eliminates $480,000 the second year, of new funding, for summer cyber camps.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($480,000)
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Update Sales Tax for anticipated revenues from HB1913/SB1390 General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment adds a net total of $369,848 the second year from the general fund for additional sales tax revenues collected pursuant to and contingent on the passage of House Bill 1913 and Senate Bill 1390.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $369,848
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Capture savings from Special Education Endorsement program General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment captures balances in the special education endorsement program and makes refinements to new budget language regarding this program.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($50,000) ($162,814)
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Reduce division payments for SOL Algebra Readiness General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment captures $199,992 from the general fund in fiscal year 2018 from SOL Algebra Readiness Payments by allocating proportionate shares of a portion of the increased cost of the algebra readiness diagnostic assessment to each school division.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($199,992)
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Provide funding for a Vocational Lab Pilot General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $175,000 the second year from the general fund to be used to develop a new Vocational Laboratory pilot that focuses on advanced, augmented and virtual reality related education experience.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $175,000
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Technical correction to K-3 Class Size Reduction and VPI programs General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical amendment adds a total of $124,467 over the biennium in the K-3 Class Size Reduction program to correct a data error submission from one school division and a rounding correction within the Virginia Preschool Initiative that saves $153.00 in the first year.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $62,645 $61,826
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Capture Additional Savings from the Teacher Improvement Fund Balance General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment captures $35,000 the first year from available balances and provides the same level of funding for the second year for the Teacher Improvement initiative.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($35,000) ($35,000)
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Increase funding for Project Discovery General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment adds $50,000 to existing second year funding for Project Discovery for an annual funding level of $662,500 to provide support to existing Partner Agencies and assist long-planned but unfunded program expansions. Established in 1979, Project Discovery is a post-secondary college access program currently offered through 22 Virginia Partner Agencies. The program encourages students to stay in and graduate from high school and provides resources and tools for students and families to successfully make the transition to post-secondary education. Many participants are first-generation college students. Partner agencies must match, dollar-for-dollar, program support.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $50,000
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Provide funding for College Partnership Laboratory School General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $50,000 in the second year from the general fund for Chesterfield County Public Schools to plan with Virginia State University for the continued development of a college partnership laboratory school in support of Ettrick Elementary School.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $50,000
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Remove funds for New Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment saves $32,292 the second year from the general fund by eliminating the new spending initiative to plan a summer Governor's School for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($32,292)
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Add language for Pre-K mixed delivery exemption General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment provides maximum flexibility that may be needed in order to implement a successful high-quality mixed delivery preschool program to the recipients of a Mixed-Delivery Preschool grant. In addition, the language specifies that new pilot grants awarded beginning in the second year shall be awarded to recipients that offer high quality preschool experience to participating enrolled at-risk four-year-old children.
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Add language table of Direct Aid Federal Grant Programs General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment adds a table of the federal grant awards that are reflected in the introduced budget for public education.
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Expand Tuition Eligibility to Incoming College Freshman Students General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment expands tuition eligibility such that graduating high school students can apply for and receive a tuition scholarship of up to the annual amount of $10,000 in pursuit of obtaining a teacher license while enrolled either in a full-time or part-time approved undergraduate or graduate teacher education program for (i) critical teacher shortage disciplines, such as special education, chemistry, physics, earth and space science, foreign languages, or technology education; (ii) as students meeting the qualifications in ยง 22.1-290.01, Code of Virginia, who have been identified by a local school board to teach in any discipline or at any grade level in which the school board has determined that a shortage of teachers exists; or (iii) those students seeking degrees in Career and Technical education. Eligible high school students shall be able to apply for this tuition assistance as an incoming college freshman rather than waiting until their sophomore year in college to apply for such tuition assistance from this initiative.
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Modify eLearning Backpack Initiative Language General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment specifies that supplemental grants allocated to school divisions for participation in the Virginia e-Learning Backpack Initiative prior to fiscal year 2017 shall be used in eligible schools for (1) the purchase of a laptop or tablet for a student reported in ninth grade fall membership, as well as (2) the purchase of two content creation packages for teachers per grant. This will ensure that laptops or tablets are included as allowable purchases, consistent with future year issuances. The amounts for such grants shall remain unchanged.
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Modify language for Computer Science Teacher Training General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment directs Northern Virginia Community College, in consultation with the Department of Education, to contract with a partner organization to develop, market, and implement high-quality and effective computer science training and professional development activities for public school teachers pursuant to House Bill 1663.
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Modify Language for Extended Day/Year School Programs General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment removes language that penalizes the successful transition to an extended school year schedule during the start-up period. Initial grant awards may be up to $300,000 per school for up to two years after the initial implementation period, or $400,000 in the case of schools that have a Denied Accreditation status.
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Redirect Remedial Summer School funds for Power Scholars Academy General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $300,000 the second year from the Remedial Summer School assistance program funding to support a pilot public-private partnership between school divisions and the Virginia Alliance of YMCAs. The funding will enable Richmond City, Amherst and Lynchburg schools to enhance summer school learning and retention by expanding their programs with the YMCA. The Greater Richmond YMCA partnered with Richmond City during 2016 and served 87 students in the summer Power Scholars Academy, resulting in an average gain of two months in reading skills and one month gain in math comprehension for these students. In addition, the YMCA Central Virginia partnership with Lynchburg and Amherst school divisions had 71 students participate in the summer Power Scholars Academy who demonstrated an average of three-month gains in reading and two-month gains in math.


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