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2024 Session

Budget Amendments - HB30 (Floor Approved)

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Move VPI Scholarship Program to Supplemental Grants

Item 124 #4h

Item 124 #4h

First Year - FY2025 Second Year - FY2026
Education: Elementary and Secondary
Direct Aid to Public Education FY2025 $306,000 FY2026 $306,000 GF

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Page 131, line 45, strike "$89,063,467" and insert "$89,369,467".
Page 131, line 45, strike "$88,308,467" and insert "$88,614,467".

Page 133, after line 11, insert:

"VPI Provisional Teacher Licensure $306,100 $306,100".

Page 143, after line 51, insert:

"SS. Out of this appropriation, $306,100 the first year and $306,100 the second year from the general fund is allocated for the Department of Education to provide grants of no more than $30,000 each for local school divisions that have applied for such funds for the sole purpose of providing financial incentives to provisionally licensed teachers teaching students enrolled in the Virginia Preschool Initiative or other publicly-funded preschool programs operated by the school division and who are actively engaged in coursework and professional development, toward achieving the required degree and license that satisfy the licensure requirements reflected in § 22.1-299, Code of Virginia. School divisions must submit applications to the Department of Education by December 1 of each year. Priority for awarding grants shall be given to hard-to-staff schools and schools with the highest number of provisionally licensed teachers teaching students enrolled in the Virginia Preschool Initiative or other publicly-funded preschool programs operated by the school division. The Department of Education shall develop the application process to be provided to school divisions that have provisionally licensed preschool teachers employed and are teaching students enrolled in the Virginia Preschool Initiative or other publicly-funded preschool programs operated by the school division."



Explanation

(This amendment relocates the VPI Provisional Teacher Licensure program from Item 125 to Item 124. Corresponding amendments relocate all VPI language from Item 125 to Items 124 and 125.10)