Instructional spending; local school board to report expenditures annually. (HB76)
Introduced By
Del. Dickie Bell (R-Staunton) with support from co-patrons Del. Dave Albo (R-Springfield), Del. Clay Athey (R-Front Royal), Del. Tag Greason (R-Potomac Falls), Del. Tim Hugo (R-Centreville), and Del. Jimmie Massie (R-Richmond)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✗ |
Passed Committee |
✓ |
Passed House |
☐ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
Expenditures and reports on instructional spending. Requires each local school board to allocate 65 percent of its operating budget to instructional spending. Local school boards must report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of their operating budgets allocated to instructional spending. Any school division that fails to meet the 65 percent requirement must present a plan to the Board of Education to increase instructional spending by 0.5 percent in the following fiscal year. School divisions failing to submit such a plan must be audited by the Auditor of Public Accounts, who is required to submit recommendations to the Board, including instruction concerning how failing school divisions can increase their instructional spending to 65 percent. In addition, the Board must annually report to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Appropriations the amount of spending allocated by the local school divisions to instructional spending based on the reports submitted annually by the local school boards. Read the Bill »
Status
02/25/2010: Failed to Pass in Committee
History
Date | Action |
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12/29/2009 | Committee |
12/29/2009 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10101470D |
12/29/2009 | Referred to Committee on Education |
01/19/2010 | Assigned Education sub: #3 Teachers and Admin. Action |
01/21/2010 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 3-N) |
01/25/2010 | Impact statement from DPB (HB76) |
01/28/2010 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 2-N) |
02/01/2010 | Reported from Education with substitute (13-Y 8-N) (see vote tally) |
02/01/2010 | Committee substitute printed 10104511D-H1 |
02/02/2010 | Read first time |
02/03/2010 | Read second time |
02/03/2010 | Committee substitute agreed to 10104511D-H1 |
02/03/2010 | Pending question ordered |
02/03/2010 | Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB76H1 |
02/04/2010 | Read third time and passed House (63-Y 35-N) |
02/04/2010 | VOTE: --- PASSAGE (63-Y 35-N) (see vote tally) |
02/08/2010 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/08/2010 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
02/18/2010 | Impact statement from DPB (HB76H1) |
02/18/2010 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
02/25/2010 | Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (14-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
Comments
IS this currently a problem?
Generally there is a tendency in local educational system offices to have too much money spent for non-instructional spending, especially administrative spending. In a time where we need to do more with less we need to "wring out" the central offices and encourage spending on the front line.
McDonnell for Gov website says the statewide avg is 61%. He proposed to save $450+M by cutting back on admin and putting it toward instruction. what happened to that?