Financing Public Education–2–Non-SOQ Programs
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5 responses to “Financing Public Education–2–Non-SOQ Programs”
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Wow. This is as comprehensive or more so than Sherlocks stuff but without the grievances! 😉
I knew there were other sources of funding and some of which were outside or external from SOQs.
So it looks like most of them require a “match”, some by composite index and some via other percentages?
The framework reminds me of a house that has undergone multiple renovations and the bureaucracy to maintain it, substantial and I sorta wonder if reform is “ripe” and/or warranted.
If I understand the basic concept of SOQs, it’s the state determining which staffing resources are the minimum needed for a school. But when they add on all these other things as “optional’, some of them seem to be things that ought not be optional and I wonder how many of the poorer rural schools feel like they can even afford the “match”.
Finally, in reading Sherlocks tomes on Virtual schooling, it’s pretty clear that many of these other areas that you have shown , many, if not most cannot be done virtually yet they are exceptionally important especially the earlier grades.
Thank you for your fact-based, non-partisan contributions that continue. Much appreciated.
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Even if the “optional” programs were made mandatory under the SOQ, the poorer school divisions would still need to provide a match.
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Then perhaps some of those “optional” programs should be provided as 100% grants, especially the early childhood programs for economically disadvantaged children.
It just looks like a rabbit warren framework….
I’ve said before – education, healthcare and transportation – and probably others are so complicated these days that few lay people can really understand.
And it’s almost laughable that ‘parents’ would ostensibly ‘know” which of these programs their kids need, and the school may not provide, and I can see where some folks would say that few if any of these programs are worthwhile and worth the funding.
We may hear some alternative viewpoints with the change of administration in Richmond.
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on the grocery tax. I thought this was local option to keep or not. wrong?
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Northam’s proposal eliminates just the state portion of the tax on groceries. The local option would remain. As I understand it, Youngkin’s proposal is to eliminate the local tax, as well.
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