School divisions across the commonwealth will now get $201 million less than they were told they would. The mistake happened with a tool on the Virginia Department of Education’s website.
That error won’t just affect budgets for next year, but school divisions will also feel it this year. Out of the $201 million involved in the mistake, $58 million of that would have been for a year that’s almost three-quarters done.
VDOE says the tool didn’t accurately calculate how much schools would receive in state funding after the state eliminated part of the grocery sales tax at the start of the year.
