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Fairfax supervisors urge new education dollars after JLARC study; warn against formula-only changes
Summary
Committee members said JLARC's K-12 study confirms the state underfunds public education and warned that formula changes without net new revenue could produce winners and losers; supervisors asked staff to update per-pupil gaps for Fairfax and press the county's case to the governor and General Assembly.
Fairfax County supervisors used their Sept. 17 legislative committee meeting to press a central point: JLARC's K-12 study confirms that the Commonwealth underfunds public education, and remedies will require net new state dollars rather than changes to distribution formulas alone.
Ms. Arco summarized the JLARC study and the new legislative K-12 study group's first meeting, where JLARC staff and outside groups (including the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Learning Policy Institute) discussed funding formulas used in other states and the kinds of changes that might be proposed. "The JLARC report has a lot of…
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