STATE FUNDING GUIDE

Virginia

The Virginia Literacy Act (2022, expanded to grades K-8) requires literacy instruction and interventions aligned with science-based reading research, division literacy plans, and reading specialist staffing, with full implementation beginning in 2024-25. VDOE reviews and approves core, supplemental, and intervention programs and has negotiated statewide pricing for approved programs, so a Tier 2/3 intervention purchase is strongest when the program appears in VDOE’s approved intervention list. State VLA implementation funds plus one-time ALL In VA per-pupil funds (20% earmarked for VLA) have been the main state dollars behind materials and PD purchases; ALL In VA is now in final reporting (August 2026), so new purchases typically combine VLA-related state support with Title I/IDEA.

Virginia Literacy Act (VLA)

How schools fund reading intervention in Virginia

The state-level programs below are the streams Virginia districts most often use for evidence-based reading intervention purchases, alongside the federal streams available everywhere.

Virginia Literacy Act state implementation funding and VDOE-negotiated pricing

The state budget funds VLA implementation (training, tools, technical assistance), and VDOE has secured statewide pricing structures for all approved core, supplemental, and intervention programs that divisions can use when purchasing intervention curriculum and related PD.

ALL In VA one-time per-pupil funds (FY24)

Divisions received flexible one-time per-pupil funds ($418M statewide) with direction to spend 20% on VLA implementation, which many divisions used to buy VDOE-approved materials and teacher training; final reporting is due August 2026, so only remaining balances can still be applied.

Standards of Quality reading specialist staffing

SOQ funding supports one reading specialist per 550 K-5 students (and per 1,100 in grades 6-8) to deliver interventions; this is a staffing stream, so divisions typically pair it with Title I/IDEA or local funds for the intervention curriculum itself.

Approved-list note: VDOE maintains approved program lists under the VLA — core programs plus Supplemental and Intervention Instructional Program Guides — and interventions used with students identified under the VLA should come from or align with the VDOE-reviewed intervention list.

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