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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Found this interesting. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/FY-2023-Advertised-Budget.pdf

Did not realize the poverty rate was as high as 31%
Did not realize 19% of funds went to special education - almost as much as funds for high schools.

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That 31% is not evenly distributed as you probably know. Langley barely has any, while Justice, Mount Vernon, Annandale, Lewis, Falls Church, Herndon, and West Potomac are hammered.

If you live outside of the schools that shoulder the burden you could miss it entirely.

And that overall rate is up considerably over the last 15 years.[/quote]

These things don’t just happen by accident. FCPS staff proposed to reassign some moderate-income apartments in Tysons to Langley in 2020 and the local School Board member, who lives in the Langley district, overrode the staff recommendation and made sure only expensive single-family homes further from Langley were reassigned instead.

When the faux-Democrats on the School Board like Elaine Tholen won’t even move some moderate-income apartments to Langley, you can be sure they’ll continue to find ways to exclude FARMS kids as well.  In comparison, over the years, the School Board stripped many of the single-family neighborhoods out of Annandale and Lewis and concentrated poverty at those schools.[/quote]

Her McLean predecessor Jane Strauss tried to move lower income apartments to Langley in early 2019, they shot her down because they were planning a county-wide boundary overhaul to redistribute children by race and parental income.

That didn’t work out for the Dem-dominated board, who had to back away from their plans a few months later for the sake of their career ambitions.[/quote]

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