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 780, 2016 Appropriation Act $5,838,890,723 $1,617,040,368 $7,455,931,091
2016-2018 2017 Base Budget $5,560,264,011 $1,778,941,425 $7,339,205,436
2016-2018 2017 Governor's Amendments $272,183,693 ($183,320,675) $88,863,018
2016-2018 2017 General Assembly Adjustments $6,443,019 $21,419,618 $27,862,637
2016-2018 2018 Chapter 780, 2016 Appropriation Act $6,131,864,402 $1,586,746,495 $7,718,610,897
2016-2018 2018 Base Budget $5,560,264,011 $1,778,941,425 $7,339,205,436
2016-2018 2018 Governor's Amendments $582,687,836 ($213,320,675) $369,367,161
2016-2018 2018 General Assembly Adjustments ($11,087,445) $21,125,745 $10,038,300
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 780, 2016 Appropriation Act 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2017 Base Budget 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 780, 2016 Appropriation Act 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2018 Base Budget 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 funding for one-time VRS payment Base Budget Adjustment
  This adjustment removes appropriation which supported a one-time payment to the Virginia Retirement System. The payment reduced the outstanding deferred contribution balance for Virginia's teachers.
 
  FY FY
Nongeneral Fund ($192,884,000) ($192,884,000)
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Update costs of the Standards of Quality (SOQ) Decision Package
  Updates costs of the Standards of Quality (SOQ) for the 2016-2018 biennium. 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 $183,204,394 $214,902,227
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Add instructional positions in local schools Decision Package
  Adds funding for local school divisions to hire additional instructional positions based on the funded Standards of Quality (SOQ) salaries and benefits for elementary and secondary teachers, including full and partial cost of competing adjustment (COCA). Provides funding to add approximately 2,500 instructional positions statewide.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $42,675,933 $96,410,489
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Update sales tax revenues for public education Decision Package
  Updates funding provided to local school divisions based on the latest sales tax projections provided by the Department of Taxation.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $31,285,554 $53,317,636
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Increase salaries for public school positions Decision Package
  Provides additional funding 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, effective July 10, 2017.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $83,152,074
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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 2016.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($28,016,265) ($32,211,175)
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Reduce Literary Fund support for school employee retirement contributions Decision Package
  Adjusts the use 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 $0 $30,000,000
Nongeneral Fund $0 ($30,000,000)
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Fund teacher retirement, retiree health care credit, and group life contributions at the full rates Decision Package
  Adjusts funding to support employer rate changes for teacher retirement from 14.66 percent to 16.32 percent, retiree health care credit from 1.11 percent to 1.23 percent, and group life from 0.47 percent to 0.52 percent. These rates are 100 percent of the board certified full employer contribution rates.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $55,058,875
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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 $25,175,521 $25,315,414
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Enhance at-risk add-on funding Decision Package
  Enhances funding for the At-Risk program, which provides funding as a percentage add-on to basic aid to support the additional costs of educating at-risk students.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $24,806,792 $24,886,579
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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 ($24,304,370) ($24,389,404)
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Fund cost of competing adjustment (COCA) for support positions Decision Package
  Provides funding in 2018 to support the cost of competing adjustment 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 $0 $40,612,935
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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 $9.6 million in 2017 and $9.6 million in 2018.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($9,559,863) ($9,559,972)
Nongeneral Fund $9,563,325 $9,563,325
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Adjust funding for retirement, retiree health care credit, and group life changes Decision Package
  Adjusts funding to support employer rate changes for teacher retirement from 14.06 percent to 14.66 percent, retiree health care credit from 1.06 percent to 1.11 percent, and group life from 0.48 percent to 0.47 percent. This update reflects the cost to continue funding retiree health care credit and group life at 90.00 percent of the board certified full employer contribution rate and teacher retirement at 89.84 percent of the full rate. This adjustment also includes a reduction from 9.40 percent to 7.11 percent in the employer rate for retirement contributions paid on behalf of non-professional support positions.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $15,857,781 $15,959,609
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Update costs of Lottery programs Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for Lottery-funded programs based on updated projections for participation.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($4,460,096) ($4,921,799)
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Implement new funding formula for Academic-Year Governor’s Schools Decision Package
  Implements a new funding formula that more accurately funds Academic Year Governor's Schools (AYGS) in a manner that aligns with the formulas used by the Standards of Quality. Phases in the cost of the new formula at 50 percent in 2017 and 100 percent in 2018.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,859,883 $3,727,061
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Increase funding for career and technical education credentialing and equipment Decision Package
  Provides additional funding targeted toward career and technical education (CTE) in high-demand, fast-growth industry sectors. Funding includes $500,000 each year to support the cost of tests and materials for CTE credentialing and $2.0 million each year for localities to purchase CTE equipment.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $2,498,126 $2,499,855
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Provide grants to increase the skills of early education providers Decision Package
  Provides grants to increase the skills of Virginia's early education workforce through scholarships and support for completion of high-quality coursework through community colleges.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,600,000 $2,300,000
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Provide no loss funding to localities Decision Package
  Provides funding to ensure no locality loses public education funding in 2017.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $3,802,047 $0
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Provide grants to increase public-private partnerships for early childhood education Decision Package
  Provides grants to incentivize local solutions for public-private delivery of Pre-Kindergarten services to at-risk children.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,500,000 $1,500,000
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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 $1,360,521 $1,360,518
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Capture savings from pass-through programs Decision Package
  Captures savings from reducing or eliminating funding for pass-through programs.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($1,211,679) ($1,211,679)
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Expand full-time virtual high school and math outreach programs Decision Package
  Expands the Virtual Virginia full-time high school pilot program to 200 students starting in academic year 2016-2017. Also expands the virtual math outreach pilot program by enhancing support for Algebra I and funding support for additional math courses.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $758,000 $828,000
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Provide computer science training to teachers Decision Package
  Provides funding to train teachers in computer science, a critical pathway to cyber security and other 21st century technology careers. Training will include elementary through high school advanced placement level computer science instruction.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $550,000 $550,000
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Increase School Breakfast Program incentive funding Decision Package
  Increases funding to school divisions for the Breakfast after the Bell program, which encourages innovative methods of serving breakfast to unserved or underserved children.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $536,703 $536,703
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Expand initiatives providing effective discipline and alternatives to suspension Decision Package
  Expands the Virginia Tiered Systems of Support - Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (VTSS - PBIS) initiative to additional school divisions with high rates of disciplinary offenses.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $500,000 $500,000
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Expand the Communities in Schools program Decision Package
  Provides additional funding of $265,000 each year for expansion of the Communities in Schools (CIS) program to all Petersburg schools. Also includes $185,000 each year to provide a parent engagement program in two additional Richmond City elementary schools.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $450,000 $450,000
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Provide additional special education teachers in state-operated detention homes Decision Package
  Provides funding to support five additional special education teachers in state-operated detention homes based on the increase in special education student population.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $340,000 $340,000
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Increase funding for early learning of STEM through the arts Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to expand the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through the arts program for kindergarten and preschool students in Accomack, Arlington, Chesterfield, Fairfax, Loudoun, Norfolk, Petersburg, Richmond City, and Wythe public schools.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $275,000 $275,000
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Increase funding for high school innovation grants Decision Package
  Increases funding for grants that encourage high schools to implement innovative approaches that engage and motivate students through personalized learning and instruction, leading to demonstrated mastery of content, as well as skills development for career readiness.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $250,000 $250,000
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Increase funding for Project Discovery Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to Project Discovery, a college access program targeted to low-income, first generation college students. Funding will increase participation by approximately 500 students.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $250,000 $250,000
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Increase funding for Summer Residential Governor’s Schools Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to support Summer Residential Governor's Schools based on actual costs incurred by host universities. Also includes funding to support a new Hanover Regional Summer Governor's School for Career and Technical Advancement.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $193,000 $141,000
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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 ($224,934) ($74,698)
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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 $31,645 ($267,412)
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Support Jason Learning program Decision Package
  Provides funding to support Jason Learning's online platform for students in Richmond, Petersburg, and Norfolk and provide training to approximately 125 teachers in these divisions. Jason Learning provides technology intensive, inquiry-based curricula in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
 
  FY FY
General Fund $100,000 $100,000
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Support the Newport News Aviation Academy Decision Package
  Provides funding to support the Newport News Aviation Academy, a four-year science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program in cooperation with Denbigh High School that focuses on piloting, aircraft maintenance, engineering, computers, and electronics.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $100,000 $100,000
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Consolidate teacher recruitment and retention grant programs Decision Package
  Consolidates multiple grant programs focused on attracting, recruiting, and retaining high-quality teachers in Virginia's public schools.
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Require school divisions to report on broadband connectivity capabilities Decision Package
  Requires local school divisions to report annually to the Department of Education the status of broadband connectivity capability of schools in the division.
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Lottery Proceeds Fund Per Pupil Allocations General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $16.3 million the first year and $147.2 million the second year from the general fund to support reinstating the Lottery Proceeds Fund per pupil amount allocation going to schools divisions. There are other amendments in this item that provide additional revenues toward this initiative that collectively total up to $36.6 million in the first year and $157.2 million the second year in funding from Lottery revenues.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $16,287,699 $147,165,094
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Repurpose Additional Instructional Positions to 2% Raise in FY17 & Lottery PPA in FY18 General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment redirects $42.7 million the first year and $96.5 million the second year from the general fund to be used toward a mid-year 2 percent raise in fiscal year 2017 and to reinstate the policy of providing school divisions with a Lottery Fund per pupil amount basis beginning in fiscal year 2017 and at an increased level in fiscal year 2018.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($42,738,796) ($96,458,533)
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Salary Increase General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment adds $48.9 million from the general fund the first year and $2.1 million from the general fund the second year, to the $83.2 million the second year in the budget as introduced, for the state's share of a teacher and support staff compensation supplement. This amendment advances the effective date of the 2.0 percent compensation increase from July 10, 2017 to December 1, 2016.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $48,958,057 $2,152,513
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Cost of Competing Adjustment (COCA) for Support Positions General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $17.0 million in the first year and $17.4 million in the second year to provide partial funding of the cost of competing adjustment for K-12 support positions for the 18 school divisions affected, based on a support COCA rate of 10.6 percent in each year of the biennium. This reflects a change from the introduced budget, which included $0 in the first year and $40.6 million in the second year, based on a Cost of Competing Adjustment rate of 24.61 percent of SOQ funded salaries for funded support positions in the second year.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $16,983,975 ($23,211,783)
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Reinstate Literary Funds for VRS General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment allocates $20.0 million the second year from available balances in the Literary Fund to pay for a portion of the teacher retirement costs. The freed up general funds will be used in support of providing school divisions with revenues allocated on a per pupil basis through the Lottery Proceed Fund.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($20,000,000)
Nongeneral Fund $0 $20,000,000
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At-Risk Add-On Range to 1% - 13% General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reflects savings of $35.5 million from the budget as introduced, by adjusting funding based on changing the percentage At-Risk Add-On range from 2.5-14 percent of Basic Aid in the budget as introduced to 1-13 percent. This represents an increase from the current range in fiscal year 2016 of 1-12 percent based on each school division's percentage of students eligible for free lunch, based on family income levels.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($17,725,435) ($17,794,543)
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Update Lottery Proceeds Revenue Estimated from FY 2016 Carry Forward Balance General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $20.3 million in the first year from carry forward Lottery Proceeds Fund revenues from fiscal year 2016.
 
  FY FY
Nongeneral Fund $20,295,920 $0
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Technical Update for Data Corrections Since December General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical amendment reflects appropriation updates as a result of technical revisions made to source data for the following: Foster Care ($38,905); Community Eligibility Provision Schools Free Lunch percentages $1,015,140; Special Education Regional Tuition ($5,421,054); Additional Instructional Positions $94,897; Remedial Summer School ($4,084); Emporia's Free Lunch percentage ($227,943); Rappahannock Supplemental Basic Aid $27,918; Manassas City Vocational Education per pupil amount $386,854; At-Risk Add-On formula update ($15,346,371).
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($9,850,181) ($9,663,367)
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Additional General Fund Revenue for Lottery Per Pupil Allocations General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $10 million the second year from the general fund to support the reinstatement of the policy that allocates a portion of Lottery Proceeds revenues to distribute to school divisions on a per pupil amount basis.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $10,000,000
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Technical Update for Sales Tax Mid-Year Forecast General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical amendment captures $4.8 million each year from the general fund to reflect the net result of updating the sales tax estimated revenue for the mid-year forecast decrease of $11.0 million each year and the SOQ Basic Aid account increase of $6.2 million each year to offset the state's share of the decreased sales tax.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($4,815,138) ($4,815,138)
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Technology Notes Debt Service Savings General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment captures projected general fund savings in fiscal year 2017 and fiscal year 2018 due to the revised final fiscal year 2016 (Spring 2016) issuance for VPSA educational technology grants.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($1,123,698) ($1,125,745)
Nongeneral Fund $1,123,698 $1,125,745
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Remove FY16 to FY17 No Loss Funding General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment saves $3.8 million the first year from the general fund by eliminating the extra funding allocated to selected divisions that had a decrease in funding from fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2017, attributed to a decrease in student membership and an increase in local composite index.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($3,810,280) $0
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Virginia Preschool Initiative Per Pupil Amount General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $1.4 million each year to update the per pupil amount for the Virginia Preschool Initiative to the first year of the biennium based on half the percentage that Basic Aid increased in the first year due to re-benchmarking in the budget, as introduced. This action increases the per pupil amount from $6,000 to $6,125, an increase of 2.1 percent.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,444,553 $1,449,620
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Academic Year Governor's School General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment saves $0.5 million the first year and $2.1 million the second year from the general fund by maintaining the current funding formula for the Academic Year Governor's Schools and adding a flat 2.5 percent increase in the tuition amount and a $50.00 per course adjustment per student. These two adjustments are only effective for fiscal year 2017 and fiscal year 2018. The amendment further directs DOE to review the tuition distribution methodology such that the distributions are equitable based on the length of the academic program day.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($489,723) ($2,046,357)
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Tuition Grants for Community Colleges General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment captures $2.3 million from the general fund by adjusting the new initiative's funding that the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation would administer to provide tuition scholarships to community college students for early education workforce courses. The new initiative will still have $1.6 million available to provide tuition grants.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($1,000,000) ($1,300,000)
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Teacher Improvement Funding General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $50,000 the first year for grants to school divisions of up to $5,000 each to explore alternative teacher compensation approaches that move away from tenure-based step increases toward compensation systems based on teacher performance and student progress. Priority will be given to school divisions that have not previously explored alternative compensation approaches and have schools not achieving full accreditation, or that have high numbers of at-risk students needing qualified teachers in hard-to-staff subjects. This amendment also provides $2.1 million the second year, which is approximately 2.5 percent of the annual allocation for the 2 percent salary increase, to initiate and support efforts to attract, train, and retain quality teachers in hard-to-staff schools. The funding will provide competitive multi-year grants to help initiate change to more dynamic teacher compensation systems designed to increase teacher quality, effectiveness, and satisfaction, and generate higher student achievement. High-need schools will be defined, in part, as schools not achieving full accreditation and schools with high numbers of at-risk students needing qualified teachers in hard-to-staff subjects. The funding may encourage school divisions to re-think how they combine their support with their salary structure to move away from the typical step increases based on tenure, to a system based on teacher performance and student progress.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $50,000 $2,075,000
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Correction for Group Life Rate General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment adds $1.7 million the first year from the general fund to fund the employer share of the public school teacher group life insurance program at 0.52 percent in FY 2017. Unlike the retirement investments that reflect separate pools and rates for state employees and school divisions, VRS maintains a single pool for group life and budgets a single rate. The introduced budget reflected a lower group life rate for schools of 0.47 percent instead of the same rate that is budgeted for state employees of 0.52 percent. This amendment adjusts the group life rate used for school divisions and consequently increases the state and local costs. There is a companion language amendment in Item 475 that corrects the group life rate for school divisions.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,709,940 $0
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STEM Program/Research Study (VA Air & Space Center) General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides one-to-one state matching funds for a multi-platform STEM education engagement program and research study, consisting of 1,000 4th-7th grade students across Hampton Roads to participate in a two-year fully immersive educational engagement program, via the Virginia Air & Space Center. The program will include thorough research and evaluation of the sample and control groups that will be conducted before, throughout, and after the two-year project period. Research findings of this study will be disseminated to the Department of Education, Virginia Superintendents of Schools, School Board officials and all other relevant statewide venues.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $870,625 $681,975
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Petersburg Executive Leadership Recruitment Incentives General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides up to $350,000 from the general fund each year to help recruit executive leadership to Petersburg Schools if certain conditions are met.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $350,000 $350,000
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Virginia Reading Corps Pilot General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $300,000 each year from the general fund for a pilot program of the Virginia Reading Corps programs in schools.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $300,000 $300,000
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Direct Aid - Sales Tax (SB444) General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides for the net increase to the Direct Aid to Public Education distribution due to the expected sales tax revenue impact from Senate Bill 444, 2016 General Assembly Session, having to do with interest on a refund claim for erroneously paid Retail Sales and Use Tax. A companion amendment in Part 3 updates the transfer amount.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $275,188 $275,190
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Technical Update for Manassas City Vocational Education PPA General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides about $413,000 from the general fund to fund a technical update for the data correction for Manassas City vocational education student enrollment.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $201,016 $211,867
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Jobs for Virginia Graduates - Restore Funding General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment restores $200,000 each year from the general fund to provide the Jobs for Virginia Graduates initiative with the amount funded in fiscal year 2016.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $200,000 $200,000
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Restore GRASP General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reinstates the funding amounts reduced in the budget as introduced for GRASP to the levels funded in fiscal year 2016.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $187,500 $187,500
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Project Discovery General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment decreases $250,000 the first year and $62,500 the second year from the proposed increases in the introduced budget for Project Discovery. In addition, a comprehensive evaluation of program metrics is required by October 1, 2016.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($250,000) ($62,500)
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STEM Competition Team Grant Fund (SB 246) General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides funding for grants for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education competition teams at qualified schools, pursuant to Senate Bill 246, 2016 General Assembly Session.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $100,000 $200,000
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Governor's Schools Funding Cap General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment adds funding to increase the cap on the number of funded students in academic year Governor's Schools from 1,725 to 1,800. This change currently will only affect the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which is the only Governor's School with enrollment above the level of the cap.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $137,445 $141,762
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JASON Learning General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment eliminates proposed new funding to support the Jason Learning Program's online STEM platform.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($100,000) ($100,000)
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Regional CTE Center Planning Start-up Funding General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides a one-time allocation of $100,000 the first year from the general fund to develop a regional Career and Technical Education (CTE) Governor's School Center in the Roanoke Valley area. The surrounding school divisions and local community college will offer dual enrollment to high school students that focus on regional industry needs such as coding/games/App design, cyber security, and automotive service excellence (ASE) certified technicians.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $100,000 $0
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Restore Southside Regional Technology Consortium General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment reinstates the funding amounts reduced in the budget as introduced for Southside Regional Technology Consortium to the levels funded in fiscal year 2016.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $50,000 $50,000
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Virginia Student Training and Refurbishment (VA STAR) General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $50,000 each year from the general fund to support the Virginia Student Training and Refurbishment (VA STAR) Program, a collaborative effort of the Secretaries of Education and Technology and the Department of Education and General Services. This amendment continues funding necessary for VA STAR to continue the program within currently participating school divisions and to expand the number of participants through the 2016-18 biennium.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $50,000 $50,000
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Technical - K-3 Class Size Reduction Adjustment General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $55,835 the first year from the general fund for the technical adjustment to the K-3 Class Size Reduction initiative.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $55,835 $0
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Technical Update for Academic Year Governor's School - Southwest VA General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical amendment provides $34,437 the first year from the general fund to account for the Southwest Virginia Governor's School (Pulaski) going to a full-day program.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $34,437 $0
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Dual Enrollment for Home-school Students General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, to ensure that the same policies regarding the cost for dual enrollment courses held at a community college are consistently applied to public school students and home-schooled students alike. These policies will clearly address the school division contributions and any student charges for dual enrollment courses, and will ensure that public school students and home-school students are treated in the same manner.
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Language Clarification - School Breakfast General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment clarifies that only an elementary school that has more than 45 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced lunch meals is eligible to request and potentially receive state reimbursement funding of $0.05 cents per breakfast meal served through an After-the-Bell breakfast model to its students. In addition, the language directs the Department of Education to ensure that only eligible elementary schools receive such reimbursement funding for participating in the After-the-Bell breakfast model. All schools that offer additional traditional breakfast meals may request state reimbursement funding of $0.05 cents per additional breakfast meal served under this initiative.
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Language Clarification - Teach For America General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment clarifies that the funding included in the budget for the Teach for America initiative will only be spent for that program. However, if any unspent funds are carried over to the next fiscal year, up to fifty percent of the carried over amount may be used for the Teacher Residency program.
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Remove technology review language General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment removes a paragraph that includes language directing the Department of Education to create a workgroup to review the Department's Virginia Digital Textbook Marketplace contract and guidelines for the implementation of the pilot projects established in eight school divisions in the 2015-2016 school year and review the effectiveness of the pilots at the end of the year for improving academic success. The technology associated with these pilot projects was not implemented fully enough in the 2015-2016 school year for adequate evaluation, and it will take more operational time and school division participation before the effectiveness of the pilot projects can be evaluated. The paragraph also has the workgroup review other educational technology and repurposing of educational technology grants which the Department of Education is either already implementing or has already studied. In addition, other workgroup study requirements in this language can be addressed by another paragraph placed under the Department of Education to holistically review the statewide use of technology in the classroom and all sources of digital content development and online learning.
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Remove Virginia Virtual School language General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment removes language directing the transfer of direct aid payments to the Virginia Virtual School beginning in FY 2019. The language is contingent upon passage of House Bill 8, which is not expected to be enacted into law.
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Technical - Supplemental Education Programs Table General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment adds a table for all of the supplemental education assistance programs that are funded in the Direct Aid to Public Education for Item 138.
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Technical Correction - Free Lunch Date Reference General Assembly Adjustment
  This technical language amendment clarifies a date reference for free lunch data by indicating that October 2013 free lunch data is used for those schools that participate in the Community Eligibility Provision program since comparable free lunch eligibility data is not available for such schools for October 2014, the date used for all other schools and divisions.
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Technical Correction - Removes Language Related to Virginia Preschool Initiative Hold Harmless and Clarifies Residency General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment removes language related to the Virginia Preschool Initiative hold harmless policy. It also clarifies that the Virginia Preschool Initiative program is solely for students that are residents of Virginia.
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Virginia Virtual School - Transfer of Statewide Average SOQ PPA General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment requires the Department of Education to transfer the average state share of Standards of Quality per pupil funding and the state's sales tax per pupil amount of funding to the Virginia Virtual School for each student that is enrolled in the Virginia Virtual School and who was previously enrolled in public school, beginning with the 2018-2020 biennium. Funds shall be transferred based on the number of actual students enrolled in the Virginia Virtual School with a limit of 5,000 students per school year.
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Workgroup to Review Use of Technology Devices in the Classrooms in Lieu of Computer Labs General Assembly Adjustment
  This language amendment establishes a workgroup to review the transition from the use of computer labs in schools to the use of technology devices such as tablets and similar laptop devices in classrooms.


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