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

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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.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

You can’t just speculate “millions,” you have support that with evidence.

The millions was published online 3 years ago when the contracts were signed. I would have to do a lot of digging but it is public information.

That one contract was borken intl many small contracts that were collectively worth millions. It is public information.

IOW, you can’t find it.

You can read my summary above, or click on this link to view th contract.

Panorama SEL surveys is an almost 2 million dollar contract. They are one of many outside survey contracts.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cregister/ContractDetails.aspx?contractNumber=4400010525

[Anonymous]

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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?

Just about every Democratic politician from Fairfax runs for office asserting that NoVa isn't getting its fair share of state funding. So let's not pretend you're worried about how this is going to affect Lee or Wise County, OK? Y'all are already the biggest phonies on the planet.

I am going to fix this for you.

Youngkin is a POS liar.

1. CRT is not taught in one classroom in the state of VA he's a LIAR It never was ever, ever, ever....
2. Schools he only wants schools to privatize to put money in his own pocket
3. Carlye Grp wanted him out they got him out because omg he's a criminal liar
4. Youngkin will destroy VA schools if it wasn't for dems stopping his utter shit.
5. VA will be fine once he's out of office and Dems take back the state because Republicans at this point in time are STUPID, criminals and traitors to the US FULL STOP FACT

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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?

Just about every Democratic politician from Fairfax runs for office asserting that NoVa isn't getting its fair share of state funding. So let's not pretend you're worried about how this is going to affect Lee or Wise County, OK? Y'all are already the biggest phonies on the planet.

I am going to fix this for you.

Youngkin is a POS liar.

1. CRT is not taught in one classroom in the state of VA he's a LIAR It never was ever, ever, ever....
2. Schools he only wants schools to privatize to put money in his own pocket
3. Carlye Grp wanted him out they got him out because omg he's a criminal liar
4. Youngkin will destroy VA schools if it wasn't for dems stopping his utter shit.
5. VA will be fine once he's out of office and Dems take back the state because Republicans at this point in time are STUPID, criminals and traitors to the US FULL STOP FACT

FCPS showed a CRT video in their high school learning seminars this week that portrays white kids as mosquitos that should be shot with a machine gun.

This is one of the districts many CRT lessons that occur weekly in learning seminars.

Could you please start a separate thread about this and back it up with specific evidence?

If this is true, there should be a separate investigation of whoever allowed this to be shown in a public school classroom. And there should absolutely be terminations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just one survey.

Panorama runs the SEL survey that asks students very intimate questions about race, their sex lives, substance use and mental health. Panorama is a private company not governed by FERPA, with ties to Zuckerberg.

The SEL surveys are taken by your minor child on their student specific fcps issued laptops, with all survey results directly linked to your minor children and stored and analyzed offsite by Panorama. (I believe but definitely need to do more research, that Panorama has some investment by Chinese communist party linked investors.)

Parent consent is not required for this data mining operation. Like all FCPS surveys administered by outside consutling firms, the surveys are opt out only. If parents are distracted, or busy, or don't open the emails to know to opt out of this or any of the other multiple outside data mining surveys, their kids are automatically opted into the survey, with their intimate data mined and monetized by outside corporate entities.

The Panorama contract, according to the Fairfax County contract registry, is $1,845,000.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cregister/ContractDetails.aspx?contractNumber=4400010525

You can go to the registry and click on the documents to see the cost and scope of this one contract of many survey, dei and sel contracts.

There is zero academic or social value in these surveys, or of paying an outside data mining company millions to harvest and sell our minor kids information, without informed parent permission and consent. Additionally, the kids spend hours of precious school time on these commercial intrusions, hours that could be spent on literacy, math, svience or heck, spirit assemblies.

Cutting this survey and all the other surveys means that we not only protect student data, but that fcps spends our education dollars more wisely and more efficiently.

This survey alone is 10% of that total deficit.

There are at least 10 similar outside surveys and SEL or DEI type programs contracted by fcps every year.

Cut all of those and we more than make up the difference with room to spare.

That contract is not just for survey, it’s for a full program. Also, if you look through the amendments, you will see the revised total value over five years is now lower, at $1,732,200. Third, the value for this school year and next is $321,425 per year, or $642,850 total for the two years. The at is less than 4% of the shortfall FCPS will have to make up (which is closer to $18m over the two years, not $13m). Finally, any amounts of this year’s allocation that has already been paid cannot be clawed back to make up the shortfall, so that has to be factored in as well.

So, how do you propose to make up the other approximate $17m?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

You can’t just speculate “millions,” you have support that with evidence.

The millions was published online 3 years ago when the contracts were signed. I would have to do a lot of digging but it is public information.

That one contract was borken intl many small contracts that were collectively worth millions. It is public information.

IOW, you can’t find it.

You can read my summary above, or click on this link to view th contract.

Panorama SEL surveys is an almost 2 million dollar contract. They are one of many outside survey contracts.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cregister/ContractDetails.aspx?contractNumber=4400010525

That contract doesn’t match what pp described in any way.

[Anonymous]

Here is Panorama’s data collection policy.

PP is a frothing, paranoid loon who needs to stop absorbing right-wing disinformation.

https://www.panoramaed.com/privacy/client-information-policy

Also I believe these surveys are mandated by law.

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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.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

You can’t just speculate “millions,” you have support that with evidence.

The millions was published online 3 years ago when the contracts were signed. I would have to do a lot of digging but it is public information.

That one contract was borken intl many small contracts that were collectively worth millions. It is public information.

IOW, you can’t find it.

You can read my summary above, or click on this link to view th contract.

Panorama SEL surveys is an almost 2 million dollar contract. They are one of many outside survey contracts.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cregister/ContractDetails.aspx?contractNumber=4400010525

That contract doesn’t match what pp described in any way.

Click on the pricing schedule addenums.


The five year contract is $1,845,660.00.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is Panorama’s data collection policy.

PP is a frothing, paranoid loon who needs to stop absorbing right-wing disinformation.

https://www.panoramaed.com/privacy/client-information-policy

Also I believe these surveys are mandated by law.

+1

If not this company, then either a different company or Gatehouse would have to write and manage the survey themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is Panorama’s data collection policy.

PP is a frothing, paranoid loon who needs to stop absorbing right-wing disinformation.

https://www.panoramaed.com/privacy/client-information-policy

Also I believe these surveys are mandated by law.

These surveys by outside corporations are NOT mandated by law.

[Anonymous]

We can do without the stadium bathrooms that are going to get trashed in short order unless they end up paying extra for attendants when they are open.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Start with the surveys fcps pays outside consultants to conduct. I think we are up to 10 a year (it might be more) with most of these surveys asking very intimate questions of our kids by companies not governed by FERPA, without parent informed consent (all are opt out, not opt in/permkssion required). Millions could be saved by eliminating all or most of the surveys.

Do the middle schoolw still do the Positivity Project? Get rid of that. The kids hate it and thought what the staff and student groups did prior to the positivity prlject were mucb better (and free).

FCPS spends a ton on outside equity consultants who have such great ideas as showing videos to high school students that imply white kids and cops are nothing but mosquitos that should be shot with what looks like a machine gun by non white kids (this past week at our kids high school). Stop paying the morons who come up with that kind of thing.

The facebook affiliate (Leadership Academy???) That contract is worth millions. Our brilliant school board broke the contract into dozens of smaller contracts under $200,000 so it would be harder to track and so the contract would not have to go under public scrutiny before signing. Collectively, the contrqct is multi year, worth millions, and allows them to monetize our kids private information with no FERPA oversight. Cut that terrible relationship.

You can’t just speculate “millions,” you have support that with evidence.

The millions was published online 3 years ago when the contracts were signed. I would have to do a lot of digging but it is public information.

That one contract was borken intl many small contracts that were collectively worth millions. It is public information.

IOW, you can’t find it.

You can read my summary above, or click on this link to view th contract.

Panorama SEL surveys is an almost 2 million dollar contract. They are one of many outside survey contracts.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/cregister/ContractDetails.aspx?contractNumber=4400010525

That contract doesn’t match what pp described in any way.

Click on the pricing schedule addenums.


The five year contract is $1,845,660.00.

First, go check out Amendment 4 because the revised total is lower. Second, this contract is not broken into several small contracts for under $200k like pp described.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is Panorama’s data collection policy.

PP is a frothing, paranoid loon who needs to stop absorbing right-wing disinformation.

https://www.panoramaed.com/privacy/client-information-policy

Also I believe these surveys are mandated by law.

Also, this is being driven once again by right-wing nut job’s who operate in bad faith. All the crap pp has regurgitated comes from the guy cited in this:

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2017/01/those_who_call_for_transparenc.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is Panorama’s data collection policy.

PP is a frothing, paranoid loon who needs to stop absorbing right-wing disinformation.

https://www.panoramaed.com/privacy/client-information-policy

Also I believe these surveys are mandated by law.

These surveys by outside corporations are NOT mandated by law.

Yeah, they are.

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/privacy/section_2c.asp

[Anonymous]

Why do we pay for catered School Board "retreats" like the upcoming one later this month? They have access to facilities at Gatehouse that are a hell of a lot better than the run-down facilities where many kids have to attend classes. Let them do their business at Gatehouse and pack their own meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do we pay for catered School Board "retreats" like the upcoming one later this month? They have access to facilities at Gatehouse that are a hell of a lot better than the run-down facilities where many kids have to attend classes. Let them do their business at Gatehouse and pack their own meals.

You mean the one next week that is being held at Gatehouse?