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[quote=Anonymous]It was the antipathy towards Trump that gave FCPS a 12-0 Democratic School Board in 2019 and dissatisfaction with local School Boards, including the FCPS School Board, that helped get Youngkin elected.  So obviously the feelings that people have towards national politicians can affect local elections, the feelings that people have towards local officials can affect state elections, and so on.

Right now there are lots of proxy fights with both parties trying to milk events to improve their odds in the state and local elections in Virginia this fall.  We saw it with the brouhaha over notifying NMSF commended students of their awards, and we're seeing now with this accounting error.

And in each case the partisans are exaggerating the significance of the events - not getting notified of commended status is not going to have a big impact on where a kids gets into college, and this $202 million is an accounting error and not like Youngkin's administration somehow invested $202M in crypto assets that went bust.  When allocated across school divisions, it's a small amount of money that districts thought they would be getting from the state that they will not receive.  In the case of FCPS, with its $3.5B budget, the amount involved is clearly immaterial.  If FCPS can adjust when the county supervisors don't give them all the money they've requested, they can and will deal with this as well.  And it's certainly not going to make some of us forget the far worse incompetence and neglect that FCPS has displayed towards schools in our neighborhoods - a product of a terrible School Board composed of political hacks who've down far more in their time in office than Youngkin ever will to drive people out of the public schools due to their incompetence and neglect.

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