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There’s a better way. First advocated in 2006, “weighted student funding” increasingly pushes down to the school level not only the dollars but authority, giving principals the ability to do what’s needed for the kids at their school, not what’s decided at the school district level.
The district’s additional funds request to the board of supervisors has gone from $4.8 million to $6.1 million. Meanwhile, the situation could be rectified by the state.
A miscalculation happened because of a failure to account for the eliminated state-grocery tax, which helped fund Virginia's school divisions.
The Virginia Department of Education said it learned that a calculation tool on the department website was providing inflated estimates of state funding.
In this brief, we provide some historical background on the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), describe how the formula works for school districts and charter schools, describe how the formula was phased in, and explain requirements for districts to adopt plans that describe how LCFF funding will be spent.