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Everyone gets a say since this is a county wide school division and there are 3 at large members.  Nonsense and irresponsibility cross magisterial districts and impact taxes.  Everyone would pay  for additions at West Potomac while contiguous Mount Vernon has open capacity.  Everyone pays for stuff like the extra funding of $1.3 million extra for 2 schools - Hunters Woods in Hunter Mill District and Bailey's in Mason District.  Guess what?  Some people who live in Herndon find that plus IB "inequitable"  and believe all schools should get the same level of funding with adjustment for poverty/esol.

His positions appear to all be derived from Langley boundaries as a constant.

And who talks to Herndon?

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I read in another thread,  if I understand it correctly, that Herndon gets more money but its "regular " students are underfunded.

Is that a widespread sentiment? Can it be [b]proven[/b] by examining the budget?[/quote]

A "regular student"  meaning non-disadvantaged, none prior or current ELs?  None special education ?  [b]Any student[/b] in for example Hutchison Elementary/Herndon Middle/Herndon High is not funded on the same level as Bailey's/Glasgow Middle/Justice.  Why?  Program money flows beyond any ELs and disadvantaged impact produced from lower staffing ratios, any Young Scholars program, and ESOL.  A Hutchison student who flows into current ELs, Disadvantaged, Hispanic receives lower per pupil funding from FCPS than a comparable student at Bailey's and a non-disadvantaged non-ELs student at Bailey's [Mason District] or Hunters Woods [Hunter Mill District] gets the same funding boost from designation as a magnet school.  $ information is available in program and detail budgets per school on the FCPS website.

[b]Proof sources:[/b] VDOE-Virginia Dept of Education requires submission on membership per school site per school year so one can use numbers from the 2018-19 school year and the comparable budget cycle from FCPS.  http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/enrollment/index.shtml

Equitable funding based on needs of students should have a baseline: core instruction,  needs based staffing ratios, ESOL, Young Scholars.  
Non baseline extras like IB, Immersion, Dual Spanish, Magnet should have been equitable funding issues examined by at-large board members and they have not been addressed.  Furthermore at-large members have not done their due diligence on financial impacts relative to costs of not doing boundary changes for basic capacity issues or a combination of program location and out of boundary students [see Mosby Woods and Kent Gardens where AAP and Immersion impact the base school students].

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