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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The downfall is the focus on equity instead of academic excellence. FcpS will fund the undesirable schools lucratively but choke off the better schools. it's a form of reverse bussing.[/quote]

Please point out specifically how schools like Annandale, Mount Vernon, and Lewis are being funded lucratively. Each of these schools has a high-SES neighbor pyramid that has received far more lucrative facilities. West Springfield, Woodson, and West Potomac. Just stop with the nonsense that poor schools are being treated better because of equity. Sure, Falls Church HS and Justice HS are coincidentally getting renovations. That doesn't mean all poorer schools get the luxury treatment.
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Not PP but FCPS has an operating budget and a capital budget.  Facilities enhancements come out of the capital budget and largely but not entirely are based on a renovation queue established in 2008. The allocation of funding to schools in the operating budget gets less attention but the spending per student at schools with more poverty in the operating budget is higher than the spending per student at schools with less poverty.  It’s primarily driven by the staffing ratios and the number of additional administrators and specialists at some schools.

When it comes to facilities, just about any of the older schools built in the 1950s will be in worse shape than schools built and renovated later, although Justice and Madison got or are getting additions while other older schools did not.  Falls Church was built later and was due for (and is now getting) a full renovation.  Justice is not getting a full renovation, but is getting an addition.  A lot of the focus on the “equity” of facilities enhancements lately has centered around McLean, which is older and more overcrowded than both Justice and Madison but has been denied an addition.  But it’s hard to generalize from these situations precisely because there’s no obvious rhyme or reason to when FCPS decides to favor some schools that weren’t otherwise scheduled for a full renovation with an addition. [/quote]

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