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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Alexandria City and kids went through ACPS. My question is, why is the percentage of FARMS students up at TC 2015 >2014 if all these white parents have entered the system? As I recall it's ~64% FARMS 2015 to ~56% FARM 2014 at TCW. This increase will not help ACPS improve it's academic results and that is a historical data driven fact.

To blame Alexandria posters on DCUM that if more support was lent to ACPS PTA, which I fully supported, and encourage more upper middle class families to enroll, while concomitantly overlooking or not digging data to determine why the FARM population is actively rising doesn't seem smart to me.

[b]Why doesn't ACPS transparently tell the Alexandria community what the deal is here?[/b] Is Alexandria City a beneficiary of recent federal immigration and we just don't know it? I am aware this is happening throughout Northern Virginia but unaware where to get the statistics.

My concern is that even as we embark on the largest ACPS infrastructure Capitol Improvement Budget over the next ten years in Alexandria City history, we don't concomitantly come out of the bottom of academic ranking further prohibiting Alexandria City viability to Class A businesses which is what the City truly needs to lessen tax burden on struggling residents by spreading it to commercial.

I don't know about you, but we're not seeing annual personal income growth, just 2% or so. These new taxes (a full 3 cents per $100 real estate assessed is what Mr. Wilson is set on) are a real punch in the gut for us but apparently be done due to decades of prior ACPS Board neglect to school buildings and growing capacity needs of the schools.

Is there an end point in view? Is there active Board and City Council discussion of quid pro quo to raise ACPS academic standing? Or is it growth of ACPS without concern to resident tax payers whose focus remains on improved academic standing for our City so real estate value grows rather than falls behind other local school jurisdiction.

I'm tired of decades of tax payments to Alexandria City without ACPS earning by now a much better and data proven academic standing comparable to Arlington, Fairfax and Falls Church. We have only 14,500 students in ACPS for goodness sake, not tens of thousands more as Arlington and Fairfax.[/quote]

Actually the Washington Post published the stats a year or so ago and the reason is that 60% of all Alexandrians are poor.

It is a myth that Alexandria City is full of wealthy people. It is full of some wealthy people, a lot of upper middle class people who are tapped out paying high mortgages, a sprinkling of middle class people living in condos, a large amount of poor people living in public housing, Section 8, or too many people living in an older, lower cost market rate apartment.

Your tax dollars are going to supporting those poor people in the form of guaranteed public housing, Section 8 housing, food, clothing, hair cuts, tutoring, after school care, summer camp, school programs, rec and park programs,  etc and so on.  You haven't ever noticed the immense amount of free stuff that the city provides residents?

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