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_ 191 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 125. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 in a manner that is consistent with the funding of the Standards of Quality as approved by the General Assembly. 26. It is the intent of the General Assembly that all school divisions annually provide their employees, upon request, with a user-friendly statement of total compensation, including contract duration if less than 12 months. 27. The Department of Education, in collaboration with the Virginia Community College System, will ensure that the same policies regarding the cost for dual enrollment courses held at a community college, are consistently applied to public school students and home- schooled students alike. These policies will clearly address the school division contributions and any student charges for dual enrollment courses, and will ensure that public school students and home-school students are treated in the same manner. 28. Each school division shall report each year to the Department of Education the individual uses for the prior year of the following funds prescribed by this item: (i) At- Risk Add-On and (ii) Early Reading Intervention. The Department shall prescribe the format and timeline required for the reporting of such information, which shall include, permitted categories of spending, personnel, both state and local contributions, and to the extent possible, the individual schools which these funds were expended. The Department shall compile and submit this information to the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees no later than the first day of the General Assembly session. 29. Multidivision online providers, as defined in § 22.1-212.23, Code of Virginia, shall provide certain data as prescribed by the Department of Education related to students enrolled through a contract between such a provider and a school division, including such students who do not reside in the school division that is party to the contract. Such data shall include, but is not limited to, enrollment, which shall be disaggregated by serving school, demographics, attendance, achievement, and achievement gaps, and be transmitted in a format prescribed by the Department. The Department shall report such data annually through the School Quality Profiles in a manner that clearly disaggregates and communicates school quality information related to (i) the students that do not reside in the school division and are served through the contract, and (ii) all other students. 30. Each school division shall report to the Department of Education information on the use of funds appropriated in fiscal year 2024 for the Flexible Funding Supplement and on the use of pass-through federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds used since 2020. Such reporting shall specify amounts obligated and expensed based on reporting categories as prescribed by the Department of Education. School divisions also shall report how funds address performance gains or losses related to reading and mathematics and support preparation and implementation of the Virginia Literacy Act. The Department of Education shall compile this information and submit it to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee no later than October 1, 2024, 2025, and 2026. 31. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of § 22.1-349.1, Code of Virginia, for the purpose of this Item and the College Partnership Laboratory School Fund, a "college partnership laboratory school" means a public, nonsectarian, nonreligious school in the Commonwealth established by a baccalaureate public institution of higher education. b. Institutions not eligible for funding under paragraph CB.31.a. of this Item may partner with a public baccalaureate institution of higher education in Virginia to operate a college partnership laboratory school if they wish to access funding from the College Partnership Laboratory School Fund. The public baccalaureate institution must have an approved college partnership laboratory school application to serve as the fiscal agent and partner by June 30, 2024. The Department of Education shall require resubmission of contracts to meet the fiscal agent and partnership requirements of this paragraph. The Department shall report to the Chairs of the Senate Finance and Appropriations and House Appropriations Committees of any submissions and prior contracts. c. College partnership laboratory schools shall (i) reach financial sustainability by the end of their initial approval period as defined in § 22.1-349.8 of the Code of Virginia such that