With the start of school just around the corner, local school officials are breathing much easier with a fully funded education budget in place.

Susan Wilson, Superintendent of Blue Ridge Schools indicates the start of the year might have been more stressful without state funding but she is breathing a sigh of relief know they will be getting state money.

According to Wilson, the general state aid formula is being fully funded but the formula is from levels of almost a decade ago. She says the formula isn't working because of inflation.

Wilson believes until the state works out what they have to spend compared to what they have committed to spend, schools might find they won't be getting everything they're being promised.

District leadership had begun to plan what it would be like should the state not come through with a budget. Wilson says they could have made it through an entire year without a budget with the reserves they have, but the planning for the second year and beyond.

She calls the budget being passed a big relief.