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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"And the county IS using your money wisely."

This is simply untrue.  The expenditure of $1M to change the name is NOT the big concern.  The fact that (1) contracts are not evaluated, monitored or accurately reported according to the 2015 Internal Audit, (2) the Internal Auditor does not have real independence to review administration expenditures and programs, and members of the board actively oppose an independent auditor (3) the ERFC supplemental pension is an inappropriate and inequitable benefit - total compensation of FCPS teachers is well above peer systems - and administrative costs are twice as high as the County pension plans and as much as twelve times other public pension plans - this is gross waste (4) spending on "regular kids" (not those in ESL and SpecEd) has declined by more than 5% in real terms over the past five years while spending on "special kids" is more than twice as much on a per student basis.  Analysts calculate that Loudoun spends more on "regular kids" than FCPS.

Some of the school board has not been focused on the mundane but important business of stewarding programs and expenditures; of monitoring and holding the administration accountable.   The culture of FCPS must be focused on responsible governance.  The Meals Tax was an indication of the lack of confidence that the citizens have in the school board.  A community survey from earlier this year showed that only 35% of parents believed that the board/administration was fiscally responsible.  This is the challenge, to  build confidence in the ability of the board to oversee and manage the administration.

Its been pointed out that there is already $630M of approved funds to be allocated from previous referendums. No need for another $315M at this time.  And this won't "hurt the students" - but hopefully it will concentrate the minds of the school board to focus on "the basics".[/quote]

Why don’t you provide cites for at least some of these??[/quote]

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