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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I’m not that impressed with Karloutsos. She may be a newcomer but she’s just one more person who’d put the interests of Langley over everyone else in Dranesville. You can see it in her proposals, which would add programs and resources to Langley, encourage the wealthiest kids at McLean to transfer to Langley, ignore the part of Marshall in Dranesville, and do nothing for Herndon.
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FWIW, it seems that the issue she is addressing is trying to alleviate overcrowding nearby and filling an underenrolled school.

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Right, by spending more money on the school that just got an $80M renovation and creating incentives for the wealthier kids to withdraw from the other school.  About what you’d expect from a Trump Republican.

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There was a questionnaire sent to school board candidates specifically about the overcrowding at McLean, here is her response:
“Finding a solution for McLean High School overcrowding is a top priority for me...McLean students should be eligible for an open enrollment transfer to Langley, which is under capacity...this would give parents and students the option instead of forcing students into another school by some future boundary change”. She also opposes the latest boundary adjustment draft #8 the school board almost voted in this summer, that would have likely resulted in busing, and she has 4 kids in FCPS, clearly some comments in this forum are not fully informed.

See her responses to the boundary and overcrowding issue (she is the only Dranesville candidate that even bothered addressing these issues, neither of the other two candidates seem to really care about what should have been a central concern for the FCPS board for years and years!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14KpKOOZzHZEtwqGbclTxrksBMtefKeA-/view
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Who do you think will take advantage of an open enrollment policy?  It's the families with enough resources to arrange transportation on their own to Langley - $$$$.  And since FCPS has limited experience with such a policy, it wouldn't know in advance whether it would address the overcrowding at McLean.  And as mentioned she wants FCPS spending more on Langley - she proposes adding both IB and Academy courses to Langley - even though FCPS just spent close to $80M on the school.  The money should be spent elsewhere.

Other candidates, including Tholen, have responded to a McSpaces questionnaire about boundaries and overcrowding.

https://mcspaces1955.wixsite.com/mclean/candidate-information?fbclid=IwAR1mYtw9LUYpkBGSv5-tei_2ctDazQRWCy2IX4VFQpUPdnqA6KpG_Ph3zNI[/quote]

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