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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]FCPS spent $260 million on ESOL services in the past two fiscal years. Kids have been showing up from the border in our children's classrooms for the past four years not speaking a word of English. I the border had been controlled we wouldn't need those funds.[/quote]

You do realize that the money came from the feds, right? [b]The feds reimburse [u]all[/u] of those costs through Title 3.[/b] It's not the local county that was paying for it. Just letting you know that this has nothing to do with the budget shortfall. Fairfax County has had shortfalls before. Remember when they were going to cut all the music programs in the elementary schools? That was not very long ago. [/quote][size=9]emphasis mine[/size]

Can you help me find your sources?

The [url=https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/FY-2026-Proposed-Budget.pdf]FY2026 FCPS Proposed Budget[/url] shows ~$38M coming from the State for English for Speakers of Other Languages (p150) and I'll go out on a limb and say some or all of that "state" money is coming from Title III funding/grants given from the Federal government to Virginia. Additional direct "Federal" revenue comes in around $50M, of which $40M is marked for Special Education/IDEA (p151).

But the expenditure side does confirm some 9-figure annual outlays that a PP mentioned (but also didn't quote a specific source). FCPS indeed proposes to spend ~$106M dollars on ESOL (p152) -- a far cry from the $38M they receive from another government source.

I'm just starting to dive into various schools' budgets and they're not always easy to decipher. How else might those Title III funds you spoke of be accounted for at the local level?[/quote]

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