A Missed Opportunity to Highlight Disparities and Effective Solutions On May 19th, 2022, the Virginia Department of Education released a 34-page report on academic achievement in Virginia’s public schools at the request of Governor Youngkin. The Governor presented the report…
Conference Budget Makes Critical Investments in K-12 Public Education, But More Work Is Necessary To Provide A Quality Education to All Students We have issued the following analysis in response to the conference budget proposal following negotiations between the Virginia…
As we end March and begin April, legislators have still not agreed on a final budget. We are urging legislators to agree on a budget soon that includes our key school funding priorities because it is crucial that any budget…
Together, we’ve worked to advance five key school funding priorities this session through legislation and the budget process. While the main part of legislative session ended on March 12, budget negotiators are still working on a compromise between the House…
Two Different Approaches to Funding for Critical K12 Education Priorities in House & Senate Budgets The Fund our Schools (FOS) coalition has issued the following analysis in response to the proposed budgets from the money committees in the Virginia House…
We have been hard at work during this legislative session fighting for our policy priorities and to protect gains made in previous sessions. You can read more about our policy priorities and why they’re important here. We have now reached…
