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This paper outlines the State of Virginia and its public school system, demonstrating how the state's antiquated methods of funding and sloppy accounting have indirectly led to lower test scores on the elementary and high school standardized tests. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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makes sense, for the most part, that the more money that is spent per student in a state, the better quality schools that student will have access to. This is
not, however, a hard and fast rule - many states and cities abuse the funds they are given and rely on top-heavy bureaucratic management, instead of funneling funds down through
to the teachers. Or there are states like Virginia, which relies on an antiquated, outdated method of funding its public education. The question is, however, has this funding mechanism led
to results that are seen by students among the Standards of Learning Test, the tests that are required to judge how well a student is doing in school?
The purpose of this paper is to answer this question; and to prove that the funding problem is, in part, one reason why the
Standards of Learning tests seem so difficult for students to be able to master and pass. The paper will also review, however, the problems inherent in standardized tests, even without
funding difficulties. Virginia and its public school systems According to statistics offered by the Heritage Foundation, the enrollment of students in public
schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, junior high and high schools throughout the state (Virginia, 2002). The
expenditures were approximately $7.2 billion, which divided out into a cost per student of approximately $6,323 (Virginia, 2002). This is not too far off from the national average, which is
approximate $6,700 per student (Timberg and Helderman, 2001). Funding For the most part, at least, according to the Virginia PTA/PTSA, much of
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