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…
On Friday, February 11, members of the Fund Our Schools coalition, along with other education groups, sent a memo to the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee with recommendations for K-12 budget investments for the proposed two-year…
On December 16, 2021, Governor Northam introduced the 2022-2024 biennial budget, which comes in the wake of a global pandemic that continues to test our educators, students, and parents in unprecedented ways, and follows a far longer history of underinvestment…
Late last week, after months of debate, public comment, and meetings, the Virginia Board of Education approved their official recommendations to revise the Standards of Quality (SOQ) – our state’s minimum standards for supporting K-12 public schools. The Board recommended…
