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GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2020 RECAP
The 2020 General Assembly session included positive improvements for education, which has been largely underfunded since the 2009 recession. However, as a result the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting revenue loss;
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$ 490 million in K-12 education was un-alloted
(or temporarily deferred) from the fiscal year 2021-2022 budget that the General Assembly adopted on March 12th. Funding for these items will be re-evaluated at a special general assembly session in late summer.
📍$50 million for School Counselors was tabled. This anticipated funding would have lowered the counselor to student ratio to one counselor for every 325 students beginning in the 2021-22 school year. The school counselor ratio as it now stands reverted back to what was funded in 2019-2020 (although this ratio was lower than what was required by the Virginia code). Those ratios are 1:455 for Elementary Schools, 1:370 for Middle Schools, 1:300 for High Schools.
Click below to see the status of individual bills we were following this session and to view our webinar recapping the 2020 General Assembly session and education funding.