| • |
| Implement new state assessment contract |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funding for the Department of Education to implement a new statewide assessment contract, including funds for one-time transition costs and new ongoing costs. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$61,000,000 |
$5,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Establish School Performance and Support Framework Resource Hub |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funding to establish the School Performance and Support Framework Resource Hub, including ongoing funding for regional support specialists in math, literacy, and science, and one time funding to support infrastructure, technical training, and evidence-based supports needed for schools identified as Off Track or Needs Intensive Support. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$50,250,000 |
$1,000,000 |
| Positions |
2.00 |
6.00 |
|
| • |
| Increase federal appropriation |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Increases federal, nongeneral fund appropriation based on estimated revenues. |
| |
| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$14,756,138 |
|
| • |
| Support Virginia's Visualization and Analytics Solution |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides state funding to support Virginia's Visualization and Analytics Solution, a data tool used by local school divisions that was originally implemented with pandemic relief funds. |
| |
| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$1,900,000 |
$3,100,000 |
|
| • |
| Provide funding for the Life Changing Experiences program |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funding to implement the Life Changing Experiences Program, a 3-dimensional and interactive multimedia education program that focuses on activities that negatively impact teenagers, including alcohol and drugs, dangerous driving, and bullying, at up to 50 public schools in the Commonwealth. The program will collect real time feedback from students through hand-held devices to be shared with administrators. |
| |
| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$500,000 |
|
| • |
| Transfer fund between service areas to reflect expenditures |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Transfers nongeneral fund appropriation between service areas to reflect planned expenditures. |
| • |
| Increase maximum employment level |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Increases maximum employment level for positions that are funded by existing appropriation. |
| |
| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
32.00 |
|
| • |
| Transfer child care employees from the Department of Social Services |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Transfers seven positions supported by federal Child Care funds from the Department of Social Services to the Department of Education. |
| |
| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
7.00 |
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