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maintained Norton, serious again. “The law makes it pretty clear who’s legally responsible” in actions against contract teachers. There would eventually be no need for a School Board if the continual eroding of authority, as proposed by this bill and others, continued, he thought.
One percent out of the state’s, four percent sales tax is returned to localities for education. The amount available to each jurisdiction
is determined by the number of school-aged children in the county. House bill 1837 would substitute average daily membership for the census figure as the determining factor, according to Norton. “If that’s done, there’s going to be a loss of funds, statewide,” he pointed out.
Currently, Rappahannock gets credit for all children between seven and 19 who reside in the county, whether they attend private school, college or school at all, said Norton. If payments were based on average daily membership as of September 30, as the bill proposes, only students in public school at that time would be considered.
The county received $106 per child last year based on the census figures, according to Norton, and if credit for only a few were lost due to the proposed switch to a determination based on average daily membership, the county could lose a substantial amount of state aid.
JOINT bill 283 was the only piece of legislation discussed by the Board that received any appro
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