Virginia begins a new budget year on Monday, even though the General Assembly has unfinished business on education benefits for survivors and dependents of military veterans killed or almost completely disabled on active duty.
The new two-year, $187.5 billion budget includes raises of 3% each year for state employees, teachers and state-supported local government workers, as well as targeted raises for employees at state behavioral health facilities, state police and correctional officers.
Public schools will receive an additional $2.5 billion in state funds — about $1.2 billion more than Gov. Glenn Youngkin proposed in the budget he introduced in December — as the General Assembly responds to a sweeping legislative study a year ago that found Virginia falling far behind other states in supporting K-12 education.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
