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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84642</law_id><section_number>22.1-90.1</section_number><catch_line>Inclusion of instructional spending in the School Performance Report Card</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Public School Funds</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">State and Local Funds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall include in the annual School Performance Report Card for school divisions the percentage of each division&#x2019;s annual operating budget allocated to instructional costs. For this purpose, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall (i) establish a methodology for allocating each school division&#x2019;s expenditures to instructional and noninstructional costs in a manner that, except in the case of the hardware necessary to support electronic textbooks, is consistent with the funding of the Standards of Quality as approved by the General Assembly and (ii) allocate to instructional costs each school division&#x2019;s expenditures on the hardware necessary to support electronic textbooks. Further, at the discretion of the <span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may also report on other methods of measuring instructional spending such as those used by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Education.</p></section></text><history>2012, c. 212; 2015, c. 563.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
