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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bickering about APS’s allocation of the budget it receives is futile. There are no incremental changes within the APS budget itself that are going to move the needle in terms of getting our schools where they should be—particularly, and let’s just be honest here—for how wealthy the area is.

Let me explain to you the real problem:

Arlington County’s “vision statement” BEGINS with the objective of being “diverse and inclusive”. That’s number 1 on the board.

FY24 budget included 4 priority “community programs” for funding:
1. Eviction prevention
2. Mental and behavioral health services
3. “Responding to an insufficient supply of affordable housing”
4. Funding for the County’s own (ie internal) “planning and economic development departments” (bang up job those guys are doing… just look at Lee Hwy!)

Are those the community programs you think should be highest priority?

Separately, the budget identified 3 “strategic funding priorities”:
1. “Investments in climate and energy (restoration of climate position)”
2. Libraries of the future
3. “Investing in our partners in various areas (Langston, Columbia Pike) to increase their capacity”

Are those your priorities? I’m putting 1 and 3 in exact quotes because they’re so absurd.

This is why your kids go to a public school with 30 to a class and poorly paid teachers in a neighborhood of $2MM homes. They are stealing your money and giving it away to build more subsidized housing, more capacity for the homeless drug addicts now commonplace in places like Clarendon and Courthouse, two predominantly minority communities (with absolutely no accountability or transparency), and… I don’t even know what “restoration of climate position” means but I’m sure someone’s idiot cousin is getting a nice government contract. Be sure to let us all know if Arlington County deploying its limited funding is what finally turns the tide on global warming.

Our schools should be getting this money.
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Preach. Local elections have local consequences. So many people put blinders on with their national political affiliation without understanding that has little to do with day-to-day good local governance. [/quote]

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