Source: https://budget.lis.virginia.gov/amendment/2012/2/HB1301/Introduced/CA/139/4s/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 10:24:40+00:00

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b. Except as otherwise provided herein, by statute, or by precedent, all appropriations to the Department of Education shall be calculated using March 31 ADM unadjusted for half-day kindergarten programs, estimated at 1,222,669.04 the first year and 1,229,799.85 the second year.
c. March 31 ADM adjusted for half-day kindergarten at 85 percent of March 31 ADM, is estimated at 1,221,935.84 the first year and 1,229,039.40 the second year.
d. Students who are either (i) enrolled in a nonpublic school or (ii) receiving home instruction pursuant to § 22.1-254.1 and who are enrolled in a public school on less than a full-time basis in any mathematics, science, English, history, social science, vocational education, health education or physical education, fine arts or foreign language course, or receiving special education services required by a student's individualized education plan, shall be counted in the funded fall membership and March 31 ADM of the responsible school division. Each course shall be counted as 0.25, up to a cap of 0.5 of a student.
e. Students enrolled in an Individualized Student Alternative Education Program (ISAEP) pursuant to § 22.1-254 D shall be counted in the March 31 Average Daily Membership of the responsible school division. School divisions shall report these students separately in their March 31 reports of Average Daily Membership.
4.a. "Composite Index of Local Ability-to-Pay" - An index figure computed for each locality. The composite index is the sum of 2/3 of the index of wealth per pupil in unadjusted March 31 ADM reported for the first seven (7) months of the 2009-2010 school year and 1/3 of the index of wealth per capita (population estimates for 2009 as determined by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia) multiplied by the local nominal share of the costs of the Standards of Quality of 0.45 in each year. The indices of wealth are determined by combining the following constituent index elements with the indicated weighting: (1) true values of real estate and public service corporations as reported by the State Department of Taxation for the calendar year 2009 - 50 percent; (2) adjusted gross income for the calendar year 2009 as reported by the State Department of Taxation - 40 percent; (3) the sales for the calendar year 2009 which are subject to the state general sales and use tax, as reported by the State Department of Taxation - 10 percent. Each constituent index element for a locality is its sum per March 31 ADM, or per capita, expressed as a percentage of the state average per March 31 ADM, or per capita, for the same element. A locality whose composite index exceeds 0.8000 shall be considered as having an index of 0.8000 for purposes of distributing all payments based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay. Each constituent index element for a locality used to determine the composite index of local ability-to-pay for the current biennium shall be the latest available data for the specified official base year provided to the Department of Education by the responsible source agencies no later than November 15, 2011.
b. For any locality whose total calendar year 2009 Virginia Adjusted Gross Income is comprised of at least 3 percent or more by nonresidents of Virginia, such nonresident income shall be excluded in computing the composite index of ability-to-pay. The Department of Education shall compute the composite index for such localities by using adjusted gross income data which exclude nonresident income, but shall not adjust the composite index of any other localities. The Department of Taxation shall furnish to the Department of Education such data as are necessary to implement this provision.
c.1) In the event that two or more school divisions become one school division, whether by consolidation of only the school divisions or by consolidation of the local governments, all state payments from this item adjusted by the composite index of local ability to pay to such resulting division or interest rates on approved Literary Fund loans shall be made on the basis of a composite index established by the Board of Education, which shall equal the lowest composite index of any of the individual school divisions involved in such consolidation. In addition, the local share of state payments adjusted by the composite index shall also be based on the same lowest composite index of any of the individual school divisions involved in such consolidation. This index shall remain in effect for a period of fifteen years, unless a lower composite index is calculated for the combined division through the process for computing an index figure as set forth above. The Governor shall approve the composite index determined by the Board of Education prior to disbursement of funds under such index. The department shall report to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees the composite indices approved by the Governor and the board in the event this provision is implemented.
5. "Required Local Expenditure for the Standards of Quality" - The locality's share based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay of the cost required by all the Standards of Quality minus its estimated revenues from the state sales and use tax dedicated to public education and those sales tax revenues transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality/Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund and appropriated in this Item, both of which are returned on the basis of the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, as specified in this Item, collected by the Department of Education and distributed to school divisions in the fiscal year in which the school year begins.
8. "State Share of the Standards of Quality" - The state share of the Standards of Quality (SOQ) shall be equal to the total funded SOQ cost for a school division less the school division's estimated revenues from the state sales and use tax dedicated to public education based on the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, adjusted for the state's share of the composite index of local ability to pay.
9. In the event that the general fund appropriations in this Item are not sufficient to meet the entitlements payable to school divisions pursuant to the provisions of this Item, the Department of Education is authorized to transfer any available general fund funds between these Items to address such insufficiencies. If the total general fund appropriations after such transfers remain insufficient to meet the entitlements of any program funded with general fund dollars, the Department of Education is authorized to prorate such shortfall proportionately across all of the school divisions participating in any program where such shortfall occurred. In addition, the Department of Education is authorized each year to temporarily suspend textbook payments made to school divisions from Lottery funds to ensure that any shortfall in Lottery revenue can be accounted for in the remaining textbook payments to be made for the year.
11. Notwithstanding any other provision in statute or in this Item, the Department of Education is directed to combine the end-of-year average daily membership (ADM) for those school divisions who have partnered together as a fiscal agent division and a contractual division for the purposes of calculating prevailing costs included in the Standards of Quality (SOQ).
12. Notwithstanding any other provision in statute or in this Item, the Department of Education is directed to include zeros in the linear weighted average calculation of support non-personal costs for the purpose of calculating prevailing costs included in the Standards of Quality (SOQ).
13. Notwithstanding any other provision in statute or in this Item, the Department of Education is directed to eliminate the corresponding and appropriate object code(s) related to reported travel expenditures included the linear weighted average non-personal cost calculations for the purpose of calculating prevailing costs included in the Standards of Quality (SOQ).
14. Notwithstanding any other provision in statute or in this Item, the Department of Education is directed to eliminate the corresponding and appropriate object code(s) related to reported leases and rental and facility expenditures included the linear weighted average non-personal cost calculations for the purpose of calculating prevailing costs included in the Standards of Quality (SOQ).
15. Notwithstanding any other provision in statute or in this Item, the Department of Education is directed to fund transportation costs using a 15 year replacement schedule, which is the national standard guideline, for school bus replacement schedule for the purpose of calculating funded transportation costs included in the Standards of Quality (SOQ).
16. To provide temporary flexibility, notwithstanding any other provision in statute or in this Item, school divisions may elect to increase the teacher to pupil staffing ratios in kindergarten through grade 7 and English classes for grades 6 through twelve by one additional student; the teacher to pupil staffing ratio requirements for Elementary Resource teachers, Prevention, Intervention and Remediation, English as a Second Language, Gifted and Talented, Career and Technical funded programs (other than on Career and Technical courses where school divisions will have to maintain a maximum class size based on federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration safety requirements) are waived; and the instructional and support technology positions, librarians and guidance counselors staffing ratios for new hires are waived.
3. In the event the statewide number of pupils in March 31 ADM results in a state share of cost exceeding the general fund appropriation in this Item, the locality's state share of Basic Aid shall be reduced proportionately so that this general fund appropriation will not be exceeded. In addition, the required local share of Basic Aid shall also be reduced proportionately to the reduction in the state's share.
5. In the event that the actual revenues from the state sales and use tax dedicated to public education and those sales tax revenues transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality/Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund and appropriated in this Item (both of which are returned on the basis of the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service) for sales in the fiscal year in which the school year begins are different from the number estimated as the basis for this appropriation, the estimated state sales and use tax revenues shall not be adjusted.
7.a. Appropriations of state funds in this Item include the number of positions required by the Standards of Quality. This Item includes a minimum of 51 professional instructional positions and aide positions (C 2); Education of the Gifted, 1.0 professional instructional position (C 3); Occupational-Vocational Education Payments and Special Education Payments; a minimum of 6.0 professional instructional positions and aide positions (C 4 and C 5) for each 1,000 pupils in March 31 ADM each year in support of the current Standards of Quality. Funding in support of one hour of additional instruction per day based on the percent of students eligible for the federal free lunch program with a pupil-teacher ratio range of 18:1 to 10:1, depending upon a school division's combined failure rate on the English and Math Standards of Learning, is included in Remedial Education Payments (C 8).
c. The following state funds will be deducted from the amount calculated in paragraph a. above: revenues from the state sales and use tax (returned on the basis of the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, as specified in this Item) for sales in the fiscal year in which the school year begins; total receipts from state funds (except state funds for non-regular day school programs and state funds used for capital or debt service purposes); and the state share of any balances carried forward from the previous fiscal year. Any qualifying state funds that remain unspent at the end of the fiscal year will be added to the amount calculated in paragraph a. above.
9.a. Any required local matching funds which a locality, as of the end of a school year, has not expended, pursuant to this Item, for the Standards of Quality shall be paid by the locality into the general fund of the state treasury. Such payments shall be made not later than the end of the school year following that in which the under expenditure occurs.
12. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall provide a report annually, no later than the first day of the General Assembly session, on the status of teacher salaries, by local school division, to the Governor and the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees. In addition to information on average salaries by school division and statewide comparisons with other states, the report shall also include information on starting salaries by school division and average teacher salaries by school.
17. At the Department of Education's option, fees for audio-visual services may be deducted from state Basic Aid payments for individual local school divisions.
19. Payments for accounts related to the Standards of Quality made to localities for public education from the general fund, as provided herein, shall be payable in twenty-four semi-monthly installments at the middle and end of each month.
20. The Department of Education shall, for purposes of calculating the state and local shares of the Standards of Quality, apportion state sales and use tax dedicated to public education and those sales tax revenues transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality/ Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund based on the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
The State Comptroller shall distribute the state sales and use tax revenues dedicated to public education and those sales tax revenues transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality/ Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund based on the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
22. This Item includes appropriations totaling an estimated $450,300,000 the first year and $455,000,000 the second year from the revenues deposited to the Lottery Proceeds Fund. These amounts are appropriated for distribution to counties, cities, and towns to support public education programs pursuant to Article X, section 7-A Constitution of Virginia. Any county, city, or town which accepts a distribution from this fund shall provide its portion of the cost of maintaining an educational program meeting the Standards of Quality pursuant to Section 2 of Article VIII of the Constitution without the use of distributions from the fund.
24.a. Any locality that has met its required local effort for the Standards of Quality accounts for FY 2013 and that has met its required local match for incentive or Lottery-funded programs in which the locality elected to participate in FY 2013 may carry over into fiscal year 2014 any remaining state Direct Aid to Public Education fund balances available to help minimize any FY 2014 revenue adjustments that may occur in state funding to that locality. Localities electing to carry forward such unspent state funds must appropriate the funds to the school division for expenditure in FY 2014.
b. Any locality that has met its required local effort for the Standards of Quality accounts for FY 2014 and that has met its required local match for incentive or Lottery-funded programs in which the locality elected to participate in FY 2014 may carry over into FY 2015 any remaining state Direct Aid to Public Education fund balances available to help minimize any FY 2015 revenue adjustments that may occur in state funding to that locality. Localities electing to carry forward such unspent state funds must appropriate the funds to the school division for expenditure in FY 2015.
26. The Department of Education shall include in the annual School Performance Report Card for school divisions the percentage of each division's annual operating budget allocated to instructional costs. For this report, the Department of Education shall establish a methodology for allocating each school division's expenditures to instructional and non-instructional costs in a manner that is consistent with the funding of the Standards of Quality as approved by the General Assembly. Further, at the discretion of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Department of Education may also report on other methods of measuring instructional spending such as those used by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Education.
a. This Item provides funds to each local school board for the state share of the employer's Social Security cost incurred by it, on behalf of the instructional personnel for subsequent transfer to the Contribution Fund pursuant to Title 51.1, Chapter 7, Code of Virginia.
b. Appropriations for contributions in paragraphs 2 and 3 above include payments from funds derived from the principal of the Literary Fund in accordance with Article III, Section 8, of the Constitution of Virginia. The amounts set aside from the Literary Fund for these purposes shall not exceed $130,086,428 the first year and $129,786,428 the second year.
2) This appropriation includes funding to recognize the common labor market in the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area. Standards of Quality salary payments for instructional positions in school divisions of the localities set out below have been adjusted for the equivalent portion of the Cost of Competing Adjustment (COCA) rates that are paid to local school divisions in Planning District 8. For the counties of Stafford, Fauquier, Spotsylvania, Clarke, Warren, Frederick, and Culpeper and the Cities of Fredericksburg and Winchester, the SOQ payments have been increased by 25 percent each year of the COCA rates paid to school divisions in Planning District 8.
b. The state share for a locality shall be equal to the Basic Operation Cost for that locality less the locality's estimated revenues from the state sales and use tax (returned on the basis of the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, as specified in this Item), in the fiscal year in which the school year begins and less the required local expenditure.
d. 1) In accordance with the provisions of § 37.2-713, Code of Virginia, the Department of Education shall deduct the locality's share for the education of handicapped pupils residing in institutions within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services from the locality's Basic Aid payments.
e. 1) The apportionment to localities of all driver education revenues received during the school year shall be made as an undesignated component of the state share of Basic Aid in accordance with the provisions of this Item. Only school divisions complying with the standardized program established by the Board of Education shall be entitled to participate in the distribution of state funds appropriated for driver education. The Department of Education will deduct a designated amount per pupil from a school division's Basic Aid payment when the school division is not in compliance with § 22.1-205 C, Code of Virginia. Such amount will be computed by dividing the current appropriation for the Driver Education Fund by actual March 31 ADM.
1) The appropriation in this Item includes $25,616,358 the first year and $29,443,006 the second year from the general fund and $35,760,285 the first year and $32,168,960 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund as the state's share of the cost of textbooks based on a per pupil amount of $89.73 the first year and $89.73 the second year. The state's share of textbooks will be fund split between the general fund and Lottery Proceeds Fund. A school division shall appropriate these funds for textbooks or any other public education instructional expenditure by the school division. The state's distributions for textbooks shall be based on adjusted March 31 ADM. These funds shall be matched by the local government, based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay.
4) Any funds provided to school divisions for textbook costs that are unexpended as of June 30, 2013, or June 30, 2014, shall be carried on the books of the locality to be appropriated to the school division the following year to be used for same purpose. School divisions are permitted to carry forward any remaining balance of textbook funds until the funds are expensed for a qualifying purpose.
g. The one-cent state sales and use tax earmarked for education and the sales tax revenues transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality/Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund and appropriated in this Item which are distributed to localities on the basis of the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service as specified in this Item shall be reflected in each locality's annual budget for educational purposes as a separate revenue source for the current fiscal year.
h. The appropriation for the Standards of Quality for Public Education (SOQ) includes amounts estimated at $226,100,000 the first year and $233,900,000 the second year from the amounts transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality/Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund pursuant to Part 3 of this act which are derived from the 1/4 cent increase in the state sales and use tax levied pursuant to Chapter 3, 2004 Special Session I. These additional funds are provided to local school divisions and local governments in order to relieve the financial pressure education programs place on local real estate taxes.
i. From the total amounts in paragraph h. above, an amount estimated at $108,900,000 the first year and $112,700,000 the second year (approximately 1/8 cent of sales and use tax) is appropriated to support a portion of the cost of the state's share of the following revisions to the Standards of Quality pursuant to Chapters 939 & 955 of the Acts of Assembly of 2004: five elementary resource teachers per 1,000 students; one support and one instructional technology position per 1,000 students; a full daily planning period for teachers at the middle and high school levels in order to relieve the pressure on local real estate taxes and shall be taken into account by the governing body of the county, city, or town in setting real estate tax rates.
j. From the total amounts in paragraph h. above, an amount estimated at $117,200,000 the first year and $121,200,000 the second year (approximately 1/8 cent of sales and use tax) is appropriated in this Item to distribute the remainder of the revenues collected and deposited into the Public Education Standards of Quality/Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund on the basis of the latest yearly estimate of school age population provided by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service as specified in this Item.
b. An amount estimated at $105,003,915 the first year and $105,198,197 the second year from the general fund included in Basic Aid Payments relates to vocational education programs in support of the Standards of Quality.
a. An additional payment estimated at $85,231,165 the first year and $85,348,642 the second year from the general fund shall be disbursed by the Department of Education to support the Board of Education's Standards of Quality Prevention, Intervention, and Remediation program adopted in June 2003.
b) To receive these funds, each school division shall certify to the Department of Education that the state and local share of the at-risk payment will be used to support approved programs for students who are educationally at risk. These programs may include: Dropout Prevention, community and school-based truancy officer programs, Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), Project Discovery, Reading Recovery, programs for students who speak English as a second language, or programs related to increasing the success of disadvantaged students in completing a high school degree and providing opportunities to encourage further education and training. Further, any new funds a school division receives in excess of the amounts received in FY 2008 may be used first to provide data coordinators or to purchase similar services for schools that have not met Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the federal No Child Left Behind Act or are not fully accredited under the Standards of Accreditation. The data coordinator position is intended to provide schools with needed support in the area of data analysis and interpretation for instructional purposes, as well as overall data management and the administration of state assessments. The position would primarily focus on data related to instruction and school improvement, including: student assessment, student attendance, student/teacher engagement, behavior referrals, suspensions, retention, and graduation rates.
1) An additional state payment of $7,806,398 the first year and $7,804,875 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be disbursed for Regional Alternative Education programs. Such programs shall be for the purpose of educating certain expelled students and, as appropriate, students who have received suspensions from public schools and students returned to the community from the Department of Juvenile Justice.
1) This appropriation includes $22,343,995 the first year and $23,148,237 the second year from the general fund for the state's share of Remedial Summer School Programs. These funds are available to school divisions for the operation of programs designed to remediate students who are required to attend such programs during a summer school session or during an intersession in the case of year-round schools. These funds may be used in conjunction with other sources of state funding for remediation or intervention. School divisions shall have maximum flexibility with respect to the use of these funds and the types of remediation programs offered; however, in exercising this flexibility, students attending these programs shall not be charged tuition and no high school credit may be awarded to students who participate in this program.
a. An additional payment estimated at $81,525,356 the first year and $81,604,206 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be disbursed by the Department of Education as an incentive for reducing class sizes in the primary grades.
b. The Board of Education shall authorize amounts estimated at $12,610,500 the first year from the Literary Fund to provide debt service payments for the education technology grant program conducted through the Virginia Public School Authority in 2008.
c. The Board of Education shall authorize amounts estimated at $12,156,000 the first year and $12,154,000 the second year from the Literary Fund to provide debt service payments for the education technology grant program conducted through the Virginia Public School Authority in 2009.
d.1) The Board of Education shall authorize amounts estimated at $11,911,750 the first year and $11,907,250 the second year from the Literary Fund to provide debt service payments for the education technology grant program conducted through the Virginia Public School Authority in 2010.
2) It is the intent of the General Assembly to authorize sufficient appropriate Literary Fund revenues to pay debt service on the Virginia Public School Authority bonds or notes authorized for this program. In developing the proposed 2014-16 biennial budget for public education, the Board of Education shall include a recommendation to the Governor to authorize sufficient Literary Fund revenues to make debt service payments for this program in FY 2015.
e. 1) The Board of Education shall authorize amounts estimated at $11,666,600 the first year and $11,669,000 the second year from the Literary Fund to provide debt service payments for the education technology grant program conducted through the Virginia Public School Authority in 2011.
2) It is the intent of the General Assembly to authorize sufficient Literary Fund revenues to pay debt service on the Virginia Public School Authority bonds or notes authorized for this program. In developing the proposed 2014-16 biennial budget for public education, the Board of Education shall include a recommendation to the Governor to authorize sufficient Literary Fund revenues to make debt service payments for this program in FY 2015 and FY 2016.
f.1) The Board of Education shall authorize amounts estimated at $12,471,800 the first year and $12,472,875 the second year from the Literary Fund to provide debt service payments for the education technology grant program conducted through the Virginia Public School Authority in 2012.
2) It is the intent of the General Assembly to authorize sufficient Literary Fund revenues to pay debt service on the Virginia Public School Authority bonds or notes authorized for this program. In developing the proposed 2014-16 and 2016-18 biennial budgets for public education, the Board of Education shall include a recommendation to the Governor to authorize sufficient Literary Fund revenues to make debt service payments for this program in fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017.
g. 1) An education technology grant program shall be conducted through the Virginia Public School Authority, through the issuance of equipment notes in an amount estimated at $58,338,000 in FY 2013 and $58,104,000 in FY 2014. Proceeds of the notes will be used to establish a computer-based instructional and testing system for the Standards of Learning (SOL) and to develop the capability for high speed Internet connectivity at high schools followed by middle schools followed by elementary schools. By FY 2011, high schools within the division shall administer 100 percent of SOL tests online; by FY 2012, middle and high schools shall administer 100 percent of SOL tests online; and by FY 2013, elementary, middle, and high schools shall administer 100 percent of SOL tests online. School divisions shall use these funds first to develop and maintain the capability to support the administration of online SOL testing for all students with the exception of students with a documented need for a paper SOL test.
2) The Board of Education shall authorize amounts estimated at $12,883,498 the second year from the Literary Fund to provide debt service payments for the education technology grant program conducted through the Virginia Public School Authority in FY 2013.
3) It is the intent of the General Assembly to authorize sufficient Literary Fund revenues to pay debt service on the Virginia Public School Authority bonds or notes authorized for education technology grant programs in FY 2013 and in FY 2014. In developing the proposed 2014-16, 2016-2018, and 2018-2020 biennial budgets for public education, the Board of Education shall include a recommendation to the Governor to authorize sufficient Literary Fund revenues to make debt service payments for these programs in fiscal years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
4) Grant funds from the issuance of $58,338,000 in FY 2013 and $58,104,000 in FY 2014 in equipment notes are based on a grant of $26,000 per school and $50,000 per school division. For purposes of this grant program, eligible schools shall include schools that are subject to state accreditation and reporting membership in grades K through 12 as of September 30, 2012, for the FY 2013 issuance, and September 30, 2013, for the FY 2014 issuance, as well as regional vocational centers, special education centers, alternative education centers, regular school year Governor's Schools, and the School for the Deaf and the Blind. Schools that serve only pre-kindergarten students shall not be eligible for this grant.
5) Supplemental grants shall be allocated to eligible divisions to support schools that are not fully accredited in accordance with this paragraph. Schools that administer SOL tests in Spring 2012 and that are not fully accredited based on school accreditation ratings in effect for FY 2013 will qualify for a supplemental grant of $26,000 per school in fiscal years 2013, 2014, and 2015. Schools that administer SOL tests in Spring 2013 and that are not fully accredited based on school accreditation ratings in effect for FY 2014 will qualify for a supplemental grant of $26,000 per school in fiscal years 2014, 2015, and 2016. Schools eligible to receive these three-year supplemental grants shall only receive them one time. Schools that are fully accredited or that are new schools with conditional accreditation in their first year shall not be eligible to receive this supplemental grant. Schools that qualify for three-year supplemental grants that close prior to completion of the three-year grant period shall no longer receive supplemental grant funding.
a) Localities are required to provide a match for these funds equal to 20 percent of the grant amount, including the supplemental grants provided pursuant to paragraph g. 5). At least 25 percent of the local match shall be used for teacher training in the use of instructional technology. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is authorized to reduce the required local match for school divisions with a composite index of local ability-to-pay below 0.2000. The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind is exempt from the match requirement.
c) For purposes of establishing or enhancing a computer-based instructional program supporting the Standards of Learning pursuant to paragraph g. 1) above, these grant funds may be used to purchase handheld multifunctional computing devices that support a broad range of applications and that are controlled by operating systems providing full multimedia support and mobile Internet connectivity. School divisions that elect to use these grant funds to purchase such qualifying handheld devices must continue to meet the on-line testing requirements stated in paragraph g. 1) above.
2) The State Corporation Commission, in its consideration of the discount for services provided to elementary schools, secondary schools, and libraries and the universal service funding mechanisms as provided under § 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, is hereby encouraged to make the discounts for intrastate services provided to elementary schools, secondary schools, and libraries for educational purposes as large as is prudently possible and to fund such discounts through the universal fund as provided in § 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The commission shall proceed as expeditiously as possible in implementing these discounts and the funding mechanism for intrastate services, consistent with the rules of the Federal Communications Commission aimed at the preservation and advancement of universal service.
a.1) It is the intent of the General Assembly that a payment estimated at $68,169,246 the first year and $68,509,739 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be disbursed by the Department of Education to schools and community-based organizations to provide quality preschool programs for at-risk four-year-olds unserved by Head Start program funding. In no event shall distributions from the Lottery Proceeds Fund be made directly to community-based or private providers.
4)a) Grants shall be distributed based on an allocation formula providing the state share of a $6,000 grant for 100 percent of the unserved at-risk four-year-olds in each locality for a full-day program. The number of unserved at-risk four-year-olds in each locality shall be based on the projected number of kindergarten students, updated once each biennium for the Governor's introduced biennial budget. For FY 2013 and FY 2014 only, the number of slots funded in each school division shall be the higher of the calculated slots based on projected kindergarten enrollments or the lesser of either the calculated slots using projections of four-year-olds from the Virginia Employment Commission or the actual number of slots utilized in FY 2012. Programs operating half-day shall receive state funds based on a fractional basis determined by the pro-rata portion of a full-day, school year program provided. Half-day programs shall operate for a minimum of three hours of classroom instructional time per day, excluding breaks for lunch or recess, and grants to half-day programs shall be funded based on the state share of $3,000 per unserved at-risk four-year-old in each locality. Full-day programs shall operate for a minimum of five and one-half instructional hours, excluding breaks for meals and recess. No additional state funding is provided for programs operating greater than three hours per day but less than five and one-half hours per day. In determining the state and local shares of funding, the composite index of local ability-to-pay is capped at 0.5000.
3) A local match, based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay, shall be required. For purposes of meeting the local match, localities may use local expenditures for existing qualifying programs, however, at least seventy-five percent of the local match will be cash and no more than twenty-five percent will be in-kind. In-kind contributions are defined as cash outlays that are made by the locality that benefit the program but are not directly charged to the program. The value of fixed assets cannot be considered as an in-kind contribution. Localities shall also continue to pursue and coordinate other funding sources, including child care subsidies. Funds received through this program must be used to supplement, not supplant, any funds currently provided for programs within the locality. However, in the event a locality is prohibited from continuing the previous level of support to programs for at-risk four-year-olds from Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the state and local funds provided in this grants program may be used to continue services to these Title I students. Such prohibition may occur due to amendments to the allocation formula in the reauthorization of ESEA as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 or due to a percentage reduction in a locality's Title I allocation in 20011-2012 or 2012-2013. Any locality so affected shall provide written evidence to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and request his approval to continue the services to Title I students.
a. An additional payment of $14,193,219 the first year and $14,257,738 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be disbursed by the Department of Education to local school divisions for the purposes of providing early reading intervention services to students in grades kindergarten through 3 who demonstrate deficiencies based on their individual performance on diagnostic tests which have been approved by the Department of Education. The Department of Education shall review the tests of any local school board which requests authority to use a test other than the state-provided test to ensure that such local test uses criteria for the early diagnosis of reading deficiencies which are similar to those criteria used in the state-provided test. The Department of Education shall make the state-provided diagnostic test used in this program available to local school divisions. School divisions shall report the results of the diagnostic tests to the Department of Education on an annual basis at a time to be determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
d. In the event that a school division does not use the diagnostic test provided by the Department of Education in the year that serves as the basis for updating the funding formula for this program but has used it in past years, the Department of Education shall use the most recent data available for the division for the state-provided diagnostic test.
a. An additional payment of $11,261,046 the first year and $11,278,855 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be disbursed by the Department of Education to local school divisions for the purposes of providing math intervention services to students in grades 6, 7, 8 and 9 who are at-risk of failing the Algebra I end-of-course test, as demonstrated by their individual performance on diagnostic tests which have been approved by the Department of Education. The Department of Education shall review the tests to ensure that such local test uses state-provided criteria for diagnosis of math deficiencies which are similar to those criteria used in the state-provided test. The Department of Education shall make the state-provided diagnostic test used in this program available to local school divisions. School divisions shall report the results of the diagnostic tests to the Department of Education on an annual basis at a time to be determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
A payment of $45,787,607 the first year and $47,687,950 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be disbursed by the Department of Education to local school divisions to support the state share of 17 professional instructional positions per 1,000 students for whom English is a second language. Local school divisions shall provide a local match based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay.
b. Out of the appropriations in this Item, the Department of Education shall make available, subject to implementation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, an amount estimated at $72,629,098 the first year and $77,657,798 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund for the purpose of the state's share of the tuition rates for approved public school regional programs. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the state's share of the tuition rates shall be based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay.
c. Out of the amounts for Financial Assistance for Categorical Programs, $33,212,970 the first year and $35,154,773 the second year from the general fund is appropriated to permit the Department of Education to enter into agreements with selected local school boards for the provision of educational services to children residing in certain hospitals, clinics, and detention homes by employees of the local school boards. The selection and employment of instructional and administrative personnel under such agreements will be the responsibility of the local school board in accordance with procedures as prescribed by the local school board. State payments for the first year to the local school boards operating these programs will be based on certified expenditures from the fourth quarter of FY 2012 and the first three quarters of FY 2013. State payments for the second year to the local school boards operating these programs will be based on certified expenditures from the fourth quarter of FY 2013 and the first three quarters of FY 2014.
a. This appropriation includes $2,485,988 the first year and $2,485,988 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to support Race to GED. Out of this appropriation, $465,375 the first year and $465,375 the second year shall be used for PluggedIn VA.
b. This appropriation provides $9,999,435 the first year and $10,458,297 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to support children attending public school who have been placed in foster care or other such custodial care across jurisdictional lines, as provided by subsections A and B of § 22.1-101.1, Code of Virginia. To the extent these funds are not adequate to cover the full costs specified therein, the Department is authorized to expend unobligated balances in this Item for this support.
a. Appropriations in this Item include $125,000 the first year and $125,000 the second year from the general fund for the ongoing literacy programs conducted by Mountain Empire Community College.
a. Out of the amounts for Governor's School Payments, the Department of Education shall provide assistance for the state share of the incremental cost of regular school year Governor's Schools based on each participating locality's composite index of local ability-to-pay. Participating school divisions must certify that no tuition is assessed to students for participation in this program.
b. Out of the amounts for Governor's School Payments, the Department of Education shall provide assistance for the state share of the incremental cost of summer residential Governor's Schools and Foreign Language Academies to be based on the greater of the state's share of the composite index of local ability-to-pay or 50 percent. Participating school divisions must certify that no tuition is assessed to students for participation in this program if they are enrolled in a public school.
a. Out of this appropriation, $3,330,678 the first year and $3,767,599 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund is included for the purpose of establishing a state funded incentive program to maximize federal school nutrition revenues and increase student participation in the school breakfast program. These funds are available to any school division as a reimbursement for breakfast meals served that are in excess of the baseline established by the Department of Education. The per meal reimbursement shall be $0.22; however, the department is authorized, but not required to reduce this amount proportionately in the event that the actual number of meals to be reimbursed exceeds the number on which this appropriation is based so that this appropriation is not exceeded.
Funds provided to the Department of Education for Performance Pay Pilot grants that are unexpended as of June 30, 2012, shall be carried forward by the department to be appropriated the following fiscal year to be used for the same purpose.
Appropriations in this Item include $308,655 the first year and $308,655 the second year from the general fund to provide support grants to school divisions for standard diploma graduates.
Appropriations in this Item include $913,016 the first year and $913,016 the second year from the general fund to pay the testing costs for any 10th grade student enrolled in a public school in Virginia to take the preliminary SAT exam.

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