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Preliminary budget: Virginia Beach schools report $45.2M in staff funded above state formula and $36M in unfunded mandates
Summary
CFO Crystal Pate walked the board through positions the division funds beyond the state Standards of Quality (SOQ), associated costs, and a list of unfunded mandates as the board begins budget work for FY2026.
In a Jan. 28 administrative workshop, Crystal Pate, chief financial officer for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, presented a preliminary operating-budget overview that quantified staff funded above the state's Standards of Quality (SOQ) and summarized costed unfunded mandates the division expects to cover locally.
Pate told the school board that Virginia Beach funds roughly $45.2 million in positions beyond what the state provides under the SOQ. Those locally funded positions include library-media assistants, assistant principals, clerical staff, counselors, technology-support technicians and instructional technology specialists, elementary resource teachers (art, music, PE) and reading specialists. The division also presented an unfunded-mandates estimate of approximately $36 million for fiscal year 2025.
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