Pre-K funding increases in McDonnell budget
By JR Hoeft | Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | PolicyYesterday, the Democrats were all atwitter about a possible $81 million cut in pre-K funding.
However, as we noted to their response, that funding savings actually comes from accounting for the kids who are enrolled in the program – not a made up number of the number of kids we WISH were in the program.
But even more than that, we’ve taken a harder look at the budget and discovered these numbers for the funding of pre-K:
FY 12: $62.7 million
FY 13: $68.1 million
FY 14: $68.6 million
To me, that looks like a $6.1 million increase in pre-k funding.
Only to Democrats would an increase of $6 million be a cut.
So, McDonnell’s budget increases funding for higher ed, k-12, and pre-k…has a $2.2 billion cash infusion into VRS…promises a 3% performance based raise for state employees if we can save $166 million in discretionary income.
If I wanted to see improvements in education, I’d be really happy with this budget.
Somehow, I don’t think the partisans will think that though.
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Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter.
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4 Responses to "Pre-K funding increases in McDonnell budget"
We need to offer funding for care immediately post-womb. I mean, that’s what a compassionate conservative would do.
You what I call pre-k? Being a PARENT.
We have slack parenting in many cases and that costs us dearly. If more 2 parent homes had one bread winner and one.. Ah that ole line does not sit will with the post NOW generation.. Hmm..
Cradle to grave, isn’t this the OWS mantra?
[...] said earlier on BD that pre-K funding under the McDonnell budget is actually going up, despite what Tim Kaine, Democrats, and some members of the press have been [...]
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