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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in grad school (in education) in 2003, we looked at the budget of our respective school systems (it was a class of educators from many counties--Arlington, FCPS, DC, Montgomery, PG, Loudoun). At that time FCPS's was appx $2.2B. I am stunned that less than 20 years later, it is almost $4B. That is a staggering amount of money. PP is correct re: the amount which goes to the people that make the system run. In 2003, it was 85%. I am pleasantly surprised that that total has risen to almost 90%. I would like to see a citation for the claim "for every 2 people in the classroom, there is 1 that isn't". [/quote] This is an average increase of 2.7% per year over that time period. Inflation has averaged 2.6% since 2003. Sure it is a stager ring amount of money but context helps here.[/quote] I would like to add that since poverty has more than doubled in Fairfax during this time period, middle class and upper families have been forced to foot a larger share of this burden in increased taxes, while getting their resources redistributed in the name of “equity”. Many of the Langley and Madison pyramid schools have seen their teacher to student ratio increase while those in Mount Vernon and Justice have seen their ratios decrease. [/quote] Interestingly, 30 years ago the only higher (not even that high) poverty school in all of FCPS was Justice HS (then called J-b Stuart HS) at under 40%. Annandale was well under 25% reduced lunch and the subject of a film on successful and diverse high schools when its football team was winning VHSL state championships year after year. [/quote]
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