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Reply to "Fairfax County: McLean Citizens Association demands smaller class sizes"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS says that the cost of reducing the elementary class size formula by just .5 student (from 26.75 to 26.25) would be $7.0 million. See page 14 of the attached. http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9T8AWB70B1D4/$file/FY2016Responses%20for%20Posting1-28-15.pdf I imagine this group is not proposing a tax increase, so the funds for this proposal will have to be cut from somewhere else in the budget. Do they actually identify where the money would come from, or is this just a political "we should get more without having to make any hard decisions" deal?[/quote] 7.0M out of a budget of 3.8 Billion. If they found 2% worth of waste/fraud/abuse in the budget they could reduce the class size to 21.25 ((3,800,000,000*.02)=(76M/7.0M) =~11*.5) = class size of ~21.25) ....but they are not looking very hard We don't need more taxes. They just need to spend the money they have wisely.[/quote]
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