Charlottesville schools staff Thursday presented a balanced $81.6 million funding request to the city School Board. The request is a $2.9 million, or 3.7 percent, increase over the current $78.6 million budget. Per-pupil spending is expected to pass $17,000 next year, a budget presentation showed. The spending plan, which includes $731,000 for a 2 percent […]
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County schools to address hourly-wage salary compression, see increase in local revenue
Albemarle County schools staff Tuesday presented a plan to raise the minimum hourly rate for division classified staff from $9.75 to $10 an hour to alleviate salary compression. The move would also bring employees with at least eight years’ experience into the middle salary range of Albemarle’s competitive market – a list of similar localities […]
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County schools increase spending by $8M, face $691k revenue gap
Albemarle County schools Superintendent Pam Moran on Thursday presented a $180.8 million funding request for the fiscal year beginning July 1, an $8.1 million, or 4.7 percent, increase over this year’s $172.7 million budget. The proposed spending plan faces a $691,000 revenue gap, which is less than half of the $1.5 million deficit the schools […]
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CATEC board cuts administrator with funding request approval
The Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center will lose one of its four administrators next year, following the center board’s approval of a $2.3 million funding request Tuesday night. It adds an instructor and an instructional assistant, raises staff salaries by an average of 2 percent and eliminates the strategic planning officer position. CATEC Strategic Planning […]
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With $2M from city, schools expect balanced funding request
Charlottesville City Schools officials expect to present a balanced funding request for the next fiscal year thanks to a projected $2 million funding increase from the city. Schools Budget Director Kim Powell told the Charlottesville School Board at a Saturday budget work session at Walker Upper Elementary that she learned of the funding increase in […]
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Despite funding challenges, Albemarle School Board prioritizes teacher pay
Since 2011, the Albemarle County Public Schools have spent $10.8 million on raises for teachers and school staff. The division did not give teachers raises in the school years beginning in 2009 and 2010, documents showed, but spent $6.8 million on raises between 2007 and 2009. Documents presented to the School Board on Thursday showed that […]
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Poverty, enrollments growing in city schools
Poverty affects minority students in Charlottesville City Schools at more than three times the rate it affects white students, and poverty has grown concurrently with diversity in the division over the last 20 years. In 2015, more than 86 percent of black students in the division and more than 74 percent of other minority students […]
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Albemarle schools budget to address poverty, achievement gaps
Albemarle County Public Schools will try to focus more resources next year on the division’s neediest students, school officials said. The division has grown overall over the last several years, but its most dramatic growth has been in immigrant and refugee students, non-English-proficient students and those who qualify for the free and reduced-price lunch program, […]
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CATEC board hears range of options for FY17-18 budget
Three funding request options for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center paint three very different pictures of fiscal year 2017-18, but each promises to increase the center’s spending over the current fiscal year. The plans differ in spending on staffing and raises. The most expensive option would increase the CATEC budget by $453,000 over the current […]
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County schools’ revenues $800,000 over expenditures in FY15-16
Albemarle County Public Schools finished its last school year with $800,000 more than it spent, a Thursday preliminary financial report on fiscal year 2015-16 showed. As with all local government operations that seek to avoid an annual financial deficit, the school division expects to have some surplus funds each year. The handling of the balance […]
