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Yes: 11 • No: 3
VirginiaSB9772025 Regular SessionSenate
Standards of Quality; certain calculations, support services.
Sponsored By: Ghazala F. Hashmi (Democratic)
Failed
Summary
Public schools; Standards of Quality; certain calculations; support services. Requires the Department of Education (the Department) (i) in calculating nonpersonal costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include the costs associated with work-related employee travel and leased facilities; (ii) in calculating the deduction of federal funds in the Standards of Quality funding formula, to examine actual school division spending on support costs as a percentage of actual school division spending on all public education costs, with certain exceptions such as food service; (iii) in calculating the costs in the Standards of Quality funding formula beginning with fiscal year 2029, to include all employee benefit costs incurred by a majority of school divisions; (iv) in calculating the cost of salaries under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include facilities staff and transportation staff salaries in the calculation of any cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions; and (v) in estimating the cost of any compensation supplement for instruction and support positions under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include and estimate the cost of such a compensation supplement for facilities staff. The bill also prohibits the Department from applying any cap on inflation rate adjustments to non-personal cost categories during the biennial process of re-benchmarking the aid to the public education budget. The bill (a) requires a per-pupil Standards of Quality funding add-on to be provided for each special education student; (b) requires support services positions to be funded based on a calculation of prevailing costs and prohibits such positions from being subject to any method of funding calculation that caps the number of funded support services positions based on a ratio of such positions to students enrolled in the school division, with the exception of certain support services positions enumerated in the bill; and (c) establishes the At-Risk Program for the purpose of supporting programs and services for students who are educationally at-risk, including programs and services of prevention, intervention, or remediation.
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Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Ghazala F. Hashmi
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 1/16/2025
Reported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
Yes: 11 • No: 3
Actions Timeline
Left in Finance and Appropriations
2/5/2025SenateReported from Education and Health and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N)
1/16/2025SenateReferred to Committee on Education and Health
1/7/2025SenatePrefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104477D
1/7/2025Senate
Bill Text
Introduced
1/7/2025
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