Virginia is likely to face big bills with less money to pay them in the next two-year budget, as the state emerges from the COVID-19 public health emergency with less federal money available to spend and more pressure on the state tax revenues.

As the General Assembly money committees prepare for their annual budget retreats in less than two weeks, they are waiting for estimates on how much K-12 public education will cost to maintain at current levels.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.