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By TERRY SCANLON ,|, Capital Newt Service I' Lawmakers closed this year’s f General Assembly session — the
j, longest in modern-day histo^| — by f approving in excess of $1 billion more funds than in the previous biennium for the state’s public and higher education systems. The state’s budget almost reached $35 billion for the next two years.
Included in the funding was increased funding for a few localities around the state, including Rappahannock County, tljat were scheduled to lose state funds because ,(of a change in the composite index. This will reduce the need to increase local taxes to support the school budget.
- “It’s going to help us. I don’t know at this point to what extent,” said David Gangel, superintendent of Rappahannock County schools. “It appears to be significant. However, it is for one year.”
Party leaders on both sides embraced the state’s financial commitment to school children and educators across the state.
“I predict the 1996 legislative session will be remembered as the first in history that coupled a major new investment in education with the genuine promise of measurable academic improvement and accountability,” Gov. George Allen told lawmakers in a written statement at the close of the session.
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