Gov. Glenn Youngkin proposes to cut $138.2 million in funding the General Assembly added to the budget for school support services.
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A school custodian in Washington County begins each day by driving a bus. The day ends that way, too.
In between, custodians do their regular job in a public school district deep in Southwest Virginia to save money.
That’s part of the the price that the county school district pays to stay within a state funding cap that Virginia placed on support services 15 years ago in the teeth of the Great Recession.
Students step off a bus during the first day of school at G. H. Reid Elementary School, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024.
