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Rappahannock County schools may lose state funds because of a drop below the mandated Standards of Quality for ratio of students to administrative and supervisory personnel.
Superintendent William Bloomer said on Tuesday that he had not had the opportunity to check through the information on Standards of Quality regulations but guessed that the resignation of elementary principal Buddy Carter three weeks before the opening of schools left the county lacking onehalf to one individual manyear in ratio of supervisory personnel to teachers. He wasn’t sure whether the deficiency would be charged against the total school division or just the elementary school. He predicted that the matter would come up not once but several times at next Tuesday’s School Board meeting and said he would have an answer ready by that time.
If the county schools fall below any of the Standards of Quality, Rappahannock could lose reimbursement from the state for education, according to Bloomer. He said he thought the loss would be prorated in some fashion.
Last May, retired Superintendent O. A. Norton told the Rappahannock Supervisors that the county was funding below the minimum per child amount established by the state. The General Assembly set educational funding per child
97.3%