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_ 206 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 125. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 Health Science Academies. d. This appropriation includes $1,831,464 the first year and $1,831,464 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to support the Path to Industry Certification program. Of this amount, $500,000 the first year and $500,000 the second year shall support credentialing testing materials for students and professional development for instructors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-health sciences (STEM-H) career and technical education programs. 21. Adult Education Payments State funds shall be used to reimburse general adult education programs on a fixed cost per pupil or cost per class basis. No state funds shall be used to support vocational noncredit courses. 22. General Education Payments a. This appropriation includes $2,410,988 the first year and $2,410,988 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to support Race to GED. Out of this appropriation, $465,375 the first year and $465,375 the second year shall be used for PluggedIn VA. b. This appropriation includes $1,387,240 the first year and $1,387,240 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to support Project Graduation and any associated administrative and contractual service expenditures related to this initiative. 23. Individual Student Alternative Education Program (ISAEP) Payments Out of this appropriation, $2,247,581 the first year and $2,247,581 in the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund shall be provided for the secondary schools' Individual Student Alternative Education Program (ISAEP), pursuant to Chapter 488 and Chapter 552 of the 1999 Session of the General Assembly. 24. Foster Children Education Payments a. An additional state payment is provided from the Lottery Proceeds Fund for the prior year's local operations costs, as determined by the Department of Education, for each pupil not a resident of the school division providing his education (a) who has been placed in foster care or other custodial care within the geographical boundaries of such school division by a Virginia agency, whether state or local, which is authorized under the laws of this Commonwealth to place children; (b) who has been placed in an orphanage or children's home which exercises legal guardianship rights; (c) who is a resident of Virginia and has been placed, not solely for school purposes, in a child-caring institution or group home; or (d) who is a student that was formerly in foster care upon reaching 18 years of age but who has not yet reached 22 years of age. For pupils included in subsection (d), the school division shall keep an accurate record of the number of days in which such child was enrolled in its public schools and shall be included in the division's certification provided to the Board of Education by July 1 each school year per § 22.1-101.1 C, Code of Virginia. b. This appropriation provides $12,019,296$12,193,067 the first year and $12,470,476$12,281,254 the second year from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to support children attending public school who have been placed in foster care or other such custodial care across jurisdictional lines, as provided by subsections A and B of § 22.1-101.1, Code of Virginia. To the extent these funds are not adequate to cover the full costs specified therein, the Department is authorized to expend unobligated balances in this Item for this support. 25. Sales Tax Payments a. This is a sum-sufficient appropriation for distribution to counties, cities and towns a portion of net revenue from the state sales and use tax, in support of the Standards of Quality (Title 22.1, Chapter 13.2, Code of Virginia) (See the Attorney General's opinion of August 3, 1982). b. Certification of payments and distribution of this appropriation shall be made by the State Comptroller. c. The distribution of state sales tax funds shall be made in equal bimonthly payments at the middle and end of each month.