RICHMOND — The House Republican Caucus issued the following statement regarding Governor Spanberger’s ill-informed decision to walk away from millions in free funding to educating Virginia children:
“Governor Spanberger’s decision to walk away from hundreds of millions of dollars for our children’s education is nothing short of a betrayal. It’s a betrayal of our children, of their parents, and the future of our Commonwealth. These funds come to Virginia with no impact on Virginia taxpayers and no impact on public school funding. It is free money for our students. Yet the Governor is so driven by partisan animus that she cannot accept those dollars – simply because they came from a Republican administration.”
“Other Democrat governors in states like New York, New Mexico, and Colorado have put politics aside to opt in for their children. Virginians deserve to know why Spanberger refuses to put our students first.”