When does proposed FCPS CIP 2025-2029 come out?

[Anonymous]

Many mentions of boundary adjustments.

[Anonymous]

There are always lots of references to potential boundary adjustments. As far as I’m aware the only current boundary study open relates to Glasgow MS.

[Anonymous]

The draft CIP is crap. These folks just roll forward the same garbage as usual. There's no creative or strategic thinking involved. An underenrolled ES in the 2008 queue for a renovation may get expanded by 400 seats; an overcrowded HS that isn't in the old queue gets ignored. And they use the fact that building costs are increasing as an excuse to say there's no urgency to develop a new queue because the renovation cycle is getting longer, not shorter.

And the new School Board hasn't a clue how to demand anything better from Gatehouse.

[Anonymous]

The five-year projection has Lewis at 1423 students and West Springfield at 2925.

This does not seem sustainable. Surely preparatory work for a boundary change is underway.

[Anonymous]

I have two kids at Langley, and a set of triplets at TJ. We need large scale systematic change. the entire western half of the Langley zone needs to get changed to herndon. The northern part of the Westfield boundaries and Southern herndon can get rezoned to the new western High School. There's plenty of land available and the so called lack of land is only an excuse. The OHS boundaries need to corrspond to oakton es, with the western oakton area going into the new hs. All of the current fcps leadership needs to be fired and replaced.

[Anonymous]

As always, the "new western high school" appears to be a fiction. They keep referring to it because money for site acquisition was in an earlier bond, but they haven't acquired a site, the money set aside probably isn't adequate to purchase a site, any site they pick will be very controversial, and the need for a new school becomes less obvious as they continue to expand schools in western Fairfax (Centreville, for example, is now slated to expand to 3000 seats).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two kids at Langley, and a set of triplets at TJ. We need large scale systematic change. the entire western half of the Langley zone needs to get changed to herndon. The northern part of the Westfield boundaries and Southern herndon can get rezoned to the new western High School. There's plenty of land available and the so called lack of land is only an excuse. The OHS boundaries need to corrspond to oakton es, with the western oakton area going into the new hs. All of the current fcps leadership needs to be fired and replaced.

How noble of you to volunteer wholesale changes now that your kids are locked into good schools. A real “let them eat cake” comment.

[Anonymous]

Why hasn't the land at the intersection of sunrise valley and frying pan been considered?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you had a corporation that made decisions about where to invest in property, plant, and equipment based primarily on a business plan developed over 15 years ago, and then provided no real explanation to shareholders when it did deviate from that plan, shareholders would demand new management.

But that’s basically what FCPS does. It is easily the worst public school system in the area when it comes to managing its capital investments. The leadership was basically glorified general contractors with no planning skills.

Let’s be clear: you just voted for more of this same dysfunctional leadership in November. There is again single-party control of the school board, with Karl Frisch at the helm.

And this school board has repeatedly and vehemently stated: academics are NOT their first priority, nor is facility maintenance, overcrowding, etc.

Equity is their first priority. Anything else in FCPS comes in a far distant second.

Someone has been reading the Glenn Youngkin School Attack Manual, verbatim. Kudos, sheep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you had a corporation that made decisions about where to invest in property, plant, and equipment based primarily on a business plan developed over 15 years ago, and then provided no real explanation to shareholders when it did deviate from that plan, shareholders would demand new management.

But that’s basically what FCPS does. It is easily the worst public school system in the area when it comes to managing its capital investments. The leadership was basically glorified general contractors with no planning skills.

Let’s be clear: you just voted for more of this same dysfunctional leadership in November. There is again single-party control of the school board, with Karl Frisch at the helm.

And this school board has repeatedly and vehemently stated: academics are NOT their first priority, nor is facility maintenance, overcrowding, etc.

Equity is their first priority. Anything else in FCPS comes in a far distant second.

Someone has been reading the Glenn Youngkin School Attack Manual, verbatim. Kudos, sheep.

Not PP but all you have to do is look at this draft CIP to know that the prudent use and oversight of capital resources is a very low priority in FCPS. It will absolutely contribute to the continued decline of FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you had a corporation that made decisions about where to invest in property, plant, and equipment based primarily on a business plan developed over 15 years ago, and then provided no real explanation to shareholders when it did deviate from that plan, shareholders would demand new management.

But that’s basically what FCPS does. It is easily the worst public school system in the area when it comes to managing its capital investments. The leadership was basically glorified general contractors with no planning skills.

Let’s be clear: you just voted for more of this same dysfunctional leadership in November. There is again single-party control of the school board, with Karl Frisch at the helm.

And this school board has repeatedly and vehemently stated: academics are NOT their first priority, nor is facility maintenance, overcrowding, etc.

Equity is their first priority. Anything else in FCPS comes in a far distant second.

Someone has been reading the Glenn Youngkin School Attack Manual, verbatim. Kudos, sheep.

Not PP but all you have to do is look at this draft CIP to know that the prudent use and oversight of capital resources is a very low priority in FCPS. It will absolutely contribute to the continued decline of FCPS.

I agree. My area has 2 elementary schools receiving renovations/expansions, yet enrollment has been declining for at least the past 10 years. Once complete, those schools will only be around 50% capacity. What a waste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you had a corporation that made decisions about where to invest in property, plant, and equipment based primarily on a business plan developed over 15 years ago, and then provided no real explanation to shareholders when it did deviate from that plan, shareholders would demand new management.

But that’s basically what FCPS does. It is easily the worst public school system in the area when it comes to managing its capital investments. The leadership was basically glorified general contractors with no planning skills.

Let’s be clear: you just voted for more of this same dysfunctional leadership in November. There is again single-party control of the school board, with Karl Frisch at the helm.

And this school board has repeatedly and vehemently stated: academics are NOT their first priority, nor is facility maintenance, overcrowding, etc.

Equity is their first priority. Anything else in FCPS comes in a far distant second.

Someone has been reading the Glenn Youngkin School Attack Manual, verbatim. Kudos, sheep.

Not PP but all you have to do is look at this draft CIP to know that the prudent use and oversight of capital resources is a very low priority in FCPS. It will absolutely contribute to the continued decline of FCPS.

I agree. My area has 2 elementary schools receiving renovations/expansions, yet enrollment has been declining for at least the past 10 years. Once complete, those schools will only be around 50% capacity. What a waste.

Even worse is the Dunn Loring ES fiasco - over $80 million now budgeted for a new elementary school that isn't needed surrounded by under-capacity schools. But it's Karl Frisch's baby so of course none of the other School Board members on a board composed entirely of Democrats would ask what the hell they are doing wasting all that money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The five-year projection has Lewis at 1423 students and West Springfield at 2925.

This does not seem sustainable. Surely preparatory work for a boundary change is underway.

This is ridiculous. The enrollment at West Springfield will be more than twice that of Lewis. Roughly 731 per grade at WS and 356 per grade at Lewis. I'm sure the programs at the two schools are and will be equivalent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The five-year projection has Lewis at 1423 students and West Springfield at 2925.

This does not seem sustainable. Surely preparatory work for a boundary change is underway.

This is ridiculous. The enrollment at West Springfield will be more than twice that of Lewis. Roughly 731 per grade at WS and 356 per grade at Lewis. I'm sure the programs at the two schools are and will be equivalent.

Maybe the new CIP will include funding for a new addition at W Springfield? Is the current capacity 2,700?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The five-year projection has Lewis at 1423 students and West Springfield at 2925.

This does not seem sustainable. Surely preparatory work for a boundary change is underway.

This is ridiculous. The enrollment at West Springfield will be more than twice that of Lewis. Roughly 731 per grade at WS and 356 per grade at Lewis. I'm sure the programs at the two schools are and will be equivalent.

Maybe the new CIP will include funding for a new addition at W Springfield? Is the current capacity 2,700?

WS literally just finished their renovation and expansion after jumping the queue. They're already at 110% capacity according to the 2024 capacity dashboard. It's another 40 years for them to get their next renovation.