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in ivapvuav uit 1 uuuga, Virginia's Constitution was amended to provide all students with an equal opportunity for a quality education "and the General Assembly was to interpret what that meant. That’s where the Standards of Quality came from. They were recommended by the state board of education and then modified and adopted by the General Assembly,” Guest noted. “They probably need to stay the same for a couple of years so we can have an opportunity to digest the effects of the mandated programs,” he added.
”I’d like to see more aid to education,” Guest replied in answer to a question on whether Richmond should provide the money to fund SOQ mandates. "But the problem comes from competing programs...Education should be viewed as an investment rather than an expense but we still have to pay for it!”
Education gets about 50 percent of the state’s general fund revenue. Guest noted, while school costs take about 70 percent of local budgets. “Some counties with the means and desire to do so go a whole lot further than
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