The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission rarely jumps into political debate at the General Assembly, but the legislative watchdog agency is publicly disputing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s characterization of its work in a groundbreaking report it issued last year on state funding of K-12 schools.
Youngkin told assembly budget negotiators in a letter last week that JLARC used “outdated data” in finding that Virginia lags far behind other states in funding for public education.
The report prompted the House of Delegates and state Senate to each propose more than $1 billion in new spending on K-12 schools in the state budget they are expected to adopt later this week.
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