Glenn Youngkin's Policies cost schools across VA $202 Million

[Anonymous]

FCPS has over 2 billion dollar budget.

They planned to spend millions this yewr making fancy bathrooms in the football stadiums and replacing all the turf fields.

I think those were wasteful expenses and a great place to cut to make up the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has over 2 billion dollar budget.

They planned to spend millions this yewr making fancy bathrooms in the football stadiums and replacing all the turf fields.

I think those were wasteful expenses and a great place to cut to make up the difference.

Those stadium facilities and turf fields bring money into FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

So it's fine for FCPS and all the other school districts to rebudget due to Youngkin's inability to count? That's fine, in your world?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

Or, if Youngkin and Richmond could count, then the school districts would be able to plan for this instead of scramble and cut whatever.

That's difficult, isn't it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

So it's fine for FCPS and all the other school districts to rebudget due to Youngkin's inability to count? That's fine, in your world?

Absolutely it is fine.

Do you realize how much money fcps spends for outside data mining companies to conduct surveys on our minor kids?

Rebudget and get rid of all the wasteful spending the district sends to outside consultants and redirect the money back to teacher pay and students.

We spend so much money paying these companies to mine out kids data without parent permission. It is criminal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

As noted above, stadium facilities bring in revenue. FCPS can charge more and attract better events with nicer facilities. So if you make that cut now, you’ll have to figure out how to account for the change in revenue in the future

How much are surveys in the budget, and are any of them state-mandated?

How much does FCPS spend in equity consultants and so-called data mining programs?

You haven’t done the homework here, just making lazy suggestions to inflame people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

Cool, go through the FCPS budget and tell us what lines items you would cut for existing commitments to make up the gap.

Football stadium cosmetic upgrades.

Surveys. Cut all of them.

Outside equity consultants and student data mining programs. This would result in enough savings to make up the difference without anyone missing a single moment of learning. Heck, the kids will have morre time to devote to stem and language. And teachers could probable get a small bonus from the money fcps would save.

Or, if Youngkin and Richmond could count, then the school districts would be able to plan for this instead of scramble and cut whatever.

That's difficult, isn't it?

I disagree.

Fcps needs to cut this wasteful spendi g that has zero to do with education or teacher salaries.

We should never be paying millions to a company that exists to mine our kids data and to push political agendas on our minor children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

So it's fine for FCPS and all the other school districts to rebudget due to Youngkin's inability to count? That's fine, in your world?

Absolutely it is fine.

Do you realize how much money fcps spends for outside data mining companies to conduct surveys on our minor kids?

Rebudget and get rid of all the wasteful spending the district sends to outside consultants and redirect the money back to teacher pay and students.

We spend so much money paying these companies to mine out kids data without parent permission. It is criminal.

You keep making this claim but have not provided any numbers.

[Anonymous]

Republicans always talk about how there's no budget problem if we reduce taxes.... now we know how they do it! They just don't adjust the accounting until after they implement the tax cuts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

So it's fine for FCPS and all the other school districts to rebudget due to Youngkin's inability to count? That's fine, in your world?

Absolutely it is fine.

Do you realize how much money fcps spends for outside data mining companies to conduct surveys on our minor kids?

Rebudget and get rid of all the wasteful spending the district sends to outside consultants and redirect the money back to teacher pay and students.

We spend so much money paying these companies to mine out kids data without parent permission. It is criminal.

While this was posted in the FCPS forum, it's a statewide issue. Do you disdain all the other Virginia school districts as much as Fairfax? Or only here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans always talk about how there's no budget problem if we reduce taxes.... now we know how they do it! They just don't adjust the accounting until after they implement the tax cuts!

Right. Then it becomes Someone Else's Problem. The school districts will figure it out somehow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all his campaigning on increasing teacher salaries and funding for education specialists, all Youngkin has actually done is cut school funding. Which was utterly predictable but a whole lot of stupid people fell for it anyway.

Yup.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a $13M difference for FCPS, which has an annual budget in excess of $3 billion.

I think FCPS can handle it. Maybe they’ll have to spend less than $500K on their next sole-source contracts with equity consultants.

So it's fine for FCPS and all the other school districts to rebudget due to Youngkin's inability to count? That's fine, in your world?

Absolutely it is fine.

Do you realize how much money fcps spends for outside data mining companies to conduct surveys on our minor kids?

Rebudget and get rid of all the wasteful spending the district sends to outside consultants and redirect the money back to teacher pay and students.

We spend so much money paying these companies to mine out kids data without parent permission. It is criminal.

While this was posted in the FCPS forum, it's a statewide issue. Do you disdain all the other Virginia school districts as much as Fairfax? Or only here?

+1. I wonder what pp would propose cutting from school budgets in southwest Virginia.