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By Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Writer
In August of 2001, Virginia's Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC) will make recommendations to the General Assembly concerning funding for the State's Standards of Quality (SOQ) program that encompasses all education-related issues, from standards of learning to standards for planning for the delivery of educational programs. In response to JLARC's mandate, a group of Northern Virginia educators initiated the idea of a consortium to investigate education funding issues in the Commonwealth, and to present recommendations to JLARC in support of its mission.
In June of 2000 this group founded the Virginia Consortium for Adequate Resources for Education (Virginia CAREs), and it immediately began the process of fact-finding and consensus-building in the State. In part, it is pursuing its objectives by holding a series of forums around the Commonwealth on "State Funding Issues for K-12 Public Education," and the Rappahannock County High School was the scene of such an event last Jan. 23.
At the Rappahannock event, a brief history and statement of purpose of Virginia CAREs by Edward Kelly, President-elect of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents, and a primer on education funding by Lucy Beauchamp, Chairman of Virginia CAREs, was bracketed by introductory and closing remarks by Rappahannock's School Board Chair, John Wesley Mills, and Superintendent of Schools, Dr. David Gangel, respectively.
The common thread of discussion that emerged was that the formula used to determine State funding of public education does not
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