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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If TJ will be a lottery based environment, how do we justify the allocation of funding it gets over and above other schools?  They should just turn it back into a normal school and be done with it[/quote]

It doesn't get any more funding from FCPS than any other school.[/quote]

TJ gets a lot of private donations and sponsorships.  Mainly because companies like associating with TJ and TJ has students to fill courses/clubs that will make good use of those donations, e.g. advanced computer equipment, robotics, chemistry/microbiology lab equipment, etc.  That will slow when it turns into Chantilly Academy East.  They'll still continue to get donations because of their history and because the academies sometimes get donations too, but not sure if it will be like on the scale as they did before.  [/quote]

TJ most certainly has a concerted effort to collect above and beyond what they recieve in public funds: http://www.tjptsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/guide-to-giving-2015-2016.pdf

The TJ Partnership Fund collects between $1.8-$2.2 million annually. http://www.tjpartnershipfund.org/uploaded/TJPF_2019_Annual_Report.pdf

They also get an extra $2million or so from the state of VA for being a Govenors school.

Another less known area that they gather resources is limiting the size of the school.  The school could easily hold 2,000 students, but they are never above around 1,700 or so.  They ensure this by not admitting the full 500 students each year that the school board has authorized.   Keeping the student population down allows them to spend the resources in a smaller pool of kids.

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It’s a travesty FCPS lets so much money flow towards a single school and then allows that school to offer a very different experience than all the rest.

Just letting a few more Black and Hispanic experience it is an exercise in tokenism designed to mask the underlying lack of real equity.  Shame on FCPS for perpetuating such inequity and then pretending it’s going to go away by displacing some Asian kids.  [/quote]

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