STATE FUNDING ISSUES FOR K-12 PUBLIC EDUCATION
State Board's Standards of Quality Process
The Virginia CAREs Coalition, originally organized with only eleven school divisons, now has over 60 school divisions, the Virginia Association of School Superintendents and other organizations that have endorsed a position paper and standards to acknowledge that current state funding does not match the educational expectations and practices across the Comonwealth.
This Consortium has developed a position paper, endorsed by local school boards, that illustrates the actual cost of educating students and the prevailing educational practices that are financed with local funds instead of funds provided by the state. The position paper is a living document that will continue to be shaped by those school divisions and organizations that become part of Virginia CAREs.
On October 28, 2000, a Standards of Quality (SOQ) funding conference was held to discuss how to generate support from all school divisions for the Virginia CAREs initiative.
The following handouts from this conference can be accessed by clicking on the titles below:
- State Funding Issues for K-12 Public Education
- Virginia's System of Public School Finance is Broken
Select to view presentation – Dr. Edward L. Kelly, past Superintendent, Prince William County Public Schools
Select to view presentation – Keynote Address, Dr. Richard Salmon, Virginia Tech
- Position Paper Update –
The Need for Increased State Funding for K-12 Education - March 23, 2001
Select to view position paper – A report by the Virginia Consortium for Adequate Resources for Education (Virginia CAREs).
Virginia CAREs invites school divisions and organizations to join the Consortium and work together to support funding the Standards of Quality for Virginia’s schools and children of the 21st Century.
- *Organizations That Have Endorsed Virginia CAREs Goals
(This list is updated as endorsements are received.)
