FCPS Boundary Review Updates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Federal RIFs (reduction in force; ie - firings ), have not even begun yet, but the federal RIFs will hit FCPS very hard. This is the official plan:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25545392/omb-opm-memo.pdf

Phase II plans by each .gov agency are due on April 14. Soon after, the federal firings will begin. Read the memo I just posted.

Private employers in FFX county will feel a “ripple effect;” many people who work for private companies will lose their jobs.

These job losses will result in people leaving FCPS to find work elsewhere. Some federal agencies will be relocated outside the area.

The plan is clearly spelled out in the memorandum.

FCPS is being reckless and aloof by continuing their boundary adjustment before they experience and understand the foreseeable consequences of the coming RIFs.

Stop the boundary adjust for at least one year, FCPS.

Maybe they go ahead and redistrict and the voters unseat the Republican clowns who've unleashed this idiocy starting next year. Just about all these executive orders that purport to have any teeth will get challenged in court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Federal RIFs (reduction in force; ie - firings ), have not even begun yet, but the federal RIFs will hit FCPS very hard. This is the official plan:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25545392/omb-opm-memo.pdf

Phase II plans by each .gov agency are due on April 14. Soon after, the federal firings will begin. Read the memo I just posted.

Private employers in FFX county will feel a “ripple effect;” many people who work for private companies will lose their jobs.

These job losses will result in people leaving FCPS to find work elsewhere. Some federal agencies will be relocated outside the area.

The plan is clearly spelled out in the memorandum.

FCPS is being reckless and aloof by continuing their boundary adjustment before they experience and understand the foreseeable consequences of the coming RIFs.

Stop the boundary adjust for at least one year, FCPS.

Maybe they go ahead and redistrict and the voters unseat the Republican clowns who've unleashed this idiocy starting next year. Just about all these executive orders that purport to have any teeth will get challenged in court.

Funny how interchangeable the parties are in your first sentence when we reference the school board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Federal RIFs (reduction in force; ie - firings ), have not even begun yet, but the federal RIFs will hit FCPS very hard. This is the official plan:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25545392/omb-opm-memo.pdf

Phase II plans by each .gov agency are due on April 14. Soon after, the federal firings will begin. Read the memo I just posted.

Private employers in FFX county will feel a “ripple effect;” many people who work for private companies will lose their jobs.

These job losses will result in people leaving FCPS to find work elsewhere. Some federal agencies will be relocated outside the area.

The plan is clearly spelled out in the memorandum.

FCPS is being reckless and aloof by continuing their boundary adjustment before they experience and understand the foreseeable consequences of the coming RIFs.

Stop the boundary adjust for at least one year, FCPS.

Maybe they go ahead and redistrict and the voters unseat the Republican clowns who've unleashed this idiocy starting next year. Just about all these executive orders that purport to have any teeth will get challenged in court.

Funny how interchangeable the parties are in your first sentence when we reference the school board.

It will be harder to reverse an action taken by a school board pursuant to express statutory authority under Virginia law than to get some of these bogus EOs declared null and void.

Sorry, little MAGA dude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Federal RIFs (reduction in force; ie - firings ), have not even begun yet, but the federal RIFs will hit FCPS very hard. This is the official plan:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25545392/omb-opm-memo.pdf

Phase II plans by each .gov agency are due on April 14. Soon after, the federal firings will begin. Read the memo I just posted.

Private employers in FFX county will feel a “ripple effect;” many people who work for private companies will lose their jobs.

These job losses will result in people leaving FCPS to find work elsewhere. Some federal agencies will be relocated outside the area.

The plan is clearly spelled out in the memorandum.

FCPS is being reckless and aloof by continuing their boundary adjustment before they experience and understand the foreseeable consequences of the coming RIFs.

Stop the boundary adjust for at least one year, FCPS.

Maybe they go ahead and redistrict and the voters unseat the Republican clowns who've unleashed this idiocy starting next year. Just about all these executive orders that purport to have any teeth will get challenged in court.

Funny how interchangeable the parties are in your first sentence when we reference the school board.

+1.

Don’t feed the troll. They reveal how uninformed they are with each additional post. They just want to fight. Ignore them. They are not adding to the conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Federal RIFs (reduction in force; ie - firings ), have not even begun yet, but the federal RIFs will hit FCPS very hard. This is the official plan:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25545392/omb-opm-memo.pdf

Phase II plans by each .gov agency are due on April 14. Soon after, the federal firings will begin. Read the memo I just posted.

Private employers in FFX county will feel a “ripple effect;” many people who work for private companies will lose their jobs.

These job losses will result in people leaving FCPS to find work elsewhere. Some federal agencies will be relocated outside the area.

The plan is clearly spelled out in the memorandum.

FCPS is being reckless and aloof by continuing their boundary adjustment before they experience and understand the foreseeable consequences of the coming RIFs.

Stop the boundary adjust for at least one year, FCPS.

Maybe they go ahead and redistrict and the voters unseat the Republican clowns who've unleashed this idiocy starting next year. Just about all these executive orders that purport to have any teeth will get challenged in court.

Funny how interchangeable the parties are in your first sentence when we reference the school board.

+1.

Don’t feed the troll. They reveal how uninformed they are with each additional post. They just want to fight. Ignore them. They are not adding to the conversation.

Your problem (or your friend’s problem) is that you are opportunistically seizing upon a catastrophe caused by MAGA to urge a 12-0 Democratic school board to stand down. Good luck with that astute political strategy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Federal RIFs (reduction in force; ie - firings ), have not even begun yet, but the federal RIFs will hit FCPS very hard. This is the official plan:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25545392/omb-opm-memo.pdf

Phase II plans by each .gov agency are due on April 14. Soon after, the federal firings will begin. Read the memo I just posted.

Private employers in FFX county will feel a “ripple effect;” many people who work for private companies will lose their jobs.

These job losses will result in people leaving FCPS to find work elsewhere. Some federal agencies will be relocated outside the area.

The plan is clearly spelled out in the memorandum.

FCPS is being reckless and aloof by continuing their boundary adjustment before they experience and understand the foreseeable consequences of the coming RIFs.

Stop the boundary adjust for at least one year, FCPS.

Maybe they go ahead and redistrict and the voters unseat the Republican clowns who've unleashed this idiocy starting next year. Just about all these executive orders that purport to have any teeth will get challenged in court.

Funny how interchangeable the parties are in your first sentence when we reference the school board.

+1.

Don’t feed the troll. They reveal how uninformed they are with each additional post. They just want to fight. Ignore them. They are not adding to the conversation.

Your problem (or your friend’s problem) is that you are opportunistically seizing upon a catastrophe caused by MAGA to urge a 12-0 Democratic school board to stand down. Good luck with that astute political strategy.

FWIW, there are PLENTY of reasons to stop this boundary mess that have absolutely nothing to do with federal cutbacks. Many of those reasons have been given here repeatedly.

The School Board and/or Reid have made a mess of this study from the very beginning when they awarded a non-compete contract for $500K to a group that had never done anything of this magnitude before. Having been involved with contracts in the past, I would be stunned if it is limited to $500K and suspect it will go way over that.

These DOGE cutbacks give the SB and Reid an opportunity to save face. They can use it as an excuse to delay.

One of the biggest mistakes (other than not seeing how difficult this could be) was when they chose the committee. I've no idea what happened with #35, but the response has been less than complete. The community reps chosen for the committee are also interesting. The requirement for NDA's is a HUGE red flag.

Many of the issues with the comprehensive shift is puzzling. Why no discussion of eliminating IB. We all know that is part of the demographic shift in some schools.

etc.etc.etc.

[Anonymous]

Honest question: does anyone think that this shift will result in better schools? If so, please tell what you expect will be the results of these shifts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: does anyone think that this shift will result in better schools? If so, please tell what you expect will be the results of these shifts.

Let's start by looking at what good schools have in common within FCPS. The top schools, as ranked by US News FWIW, have test scores that are above the state of Virginia average (and above the FCPS average itself), and they have lower than county average concentration of FARMs kids, and lower than county average concentration of ELL kids. Those three variables correlate significantly with rankings and good schools.

So to answer your question, it's entirely possible that boundary changes would adjust schools such that some of them will then have better test averages, lower FARMs percentage, and lower ELL percentage. Those three variables are the most important for rankings. So mathematically, yes, we would have more good schools in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: does anyone think that this shift will result in better schools? If so, please tell what you expect will be the results of these shifts.

FCPS has already said what it perceives to be the benefits of boundary changes: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/maps/school-boundary-adjustments/boundary-policy-review-during-2024

I wish the people who are so bent out of shape over potential boundary changes had spoken up more when they built additions that weren't needed at some schools and ignored other schools that needed extra seats. Now they want to move kids around to cover up for their bad planning, and they aren't wrong when they claim that adding more seats now would cost additional money. It's just a shame the money wasn't allocated sensibly and they are still planning to waste money on boondoggles like the $85 million Dunn Loring ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: does anyone think that this shift will result in better schools? If so, please tell what you expect will be the results of these shifts.

Let's start by looking at what good schools have in common within FCPS. The top schools, as ranked by US News FWIW, have test scores that are above the state of Virginia average (and above the FCPS average itself), and they have lower than county average concentration of FARMs kids, and lower than county average concentration of ELL kids. Those three variables correlate significantly with rankings and good schools.

So to answer your question, it's entirely possible that boundary changes would adjust schools such that some of them will then have better test averages, lower FARMs percentage, and lower ELL percentage. Those three variables are the most important for rankings. So mathematically, yes, we would have more good schools in FCPS.

Given some of their priorities, like eliminating attendance islands, it's also possible that boundary changes would result in even higher test averages and lower FARMS/ELL percentages at some schools. We could have smaller schools with better scores and some schools that don't see any improvements in test scores but just have more kids (because FCPS expanded those schools and now has to back fill them with redistricted kids to justify the expenditures).

[Anonymous]

So, the schools that are succeeding are going to give up students in order to pull up scores at other schools?

That is what this is about?

Bottom line: this is intended to make the schools look better that are struggling. It is not designed to make instruction better for the students.

[Anonymous]

Pause is needed for a number of valid reasons.

Suspect the response will be to double down. Just how Reid and the SB roll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, the schools that are succeeding are going to give up students in order to pull up scores at other schools?

That is what this is about?

Bottom line: this is intended to make the schools look better that are struggling. It is not designed to make instruction better for the students.

I've heard people say boundary changes could make it easier to offer multiple sessions of advanced classes at some high schools. If they only have one session of an advanced course, scheduling conflicts may be more likely to arise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pause is needed for a number of valid reasons.

Suspect the response will be to double down. Just how Reid and the SB roll.

The SB is aware they crossed the rubicon on this long ago, and will do everything in their power to see the boundary review go through. There was almost certainly a backdeal quid pro quo when they expeditiously extended Reid's contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honest question: does anyone think that this shift will result in better schools? If so, please tell what you expect will be the results of these shifts.

we want fewer costs and the boundary changes are supposed to reduce costs.