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The county’s portion of funding during the same period grew from $1.9 million four years ago to $2.46 million last year. Gov. Wilder has proposed increasing funding for education, but the General Assembly must approve it first and even if it does increase the education pie, the so-called “poorer” school districts that sued over funding inequities (and dropped their suit last month, at least for the time being) are probably going to be the beneficiaries.
In fact, the Governor’s Office released its “Projected Standards of Quality Payments” schedule last week that indicates Rappahannock County’s check will drop from $1.6 million this year to $1.5 million in FY 1992-93 and $1.54 million the following year.
Oddly enough, statewide the ftinding is supposed to increase: $2.1 billion this year, $2.25 billion next year and $2.3 billion in FY 1993-94. County spending on the school system has increased during the past decade, even though recent years has seen smaller growth figures.
In 1983-84 the total school division budget was $2.56 million, about what the county’s portion alone will probably amount to next year.
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