This week, your hosts, Victoria Snitsar Churchill and Jacki Garry, welcome their first-ever GUEST on the show, fellow 2023 Sorensen Emerging Leader’s Program graduate and policy project group member Steven Statzer.

The trio discusses the first week of Virginia's 2024 legislative session, particularly the introduction of their own bill to amend the Standards of Quality metric, which is a key component of Virginia’s current education funding formula, introduced as HB 761.

If you want to learn more about the issues and topics that we discussed on this week’s show, check out the following links:

Our BILL! Introduced by Chief Patron, Delegate Karrie K. Delaney:

HB 761 - Public school funding; certain calculations; certain support services positions. https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB761

About Virginia’s Standards of Quality:

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/data-policy-funding/virginia-board-of-education/virginia-standards-of-quality

JLARC - Joint Legislative Audit & Review Commission

https://jlarc.virginia.gov/

Senator Danica Roem and Data Centers in the Cardinal News:

https://cardinalnews.org/2024/01/10/10-things-new-legislators-should-know-about-southwest-and-southside/

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