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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t need to elect Brody. However it will be another disaster if the next SB is another all-D board. Suggest voting for Moon and Davis and looking at some of the independent candidates running for at-large without a party endorsement like Gabor and Hussein. [/quote]

Davis is a vapid joke. The latest in a long line of GOP closet cases who regurgitate the same 6 sentences hoping to fool voters. She doesn’t have a single qualification to lead our schools and her only track record is leading the failed recall attempts. [/quote]

She came to my neighborhood association candidates forum and she couldnt answer any questions. She said flat out that she didn’t know when asked a question about state funding formulas[/quote]

It’s actually refreshing that a candidate would admit that she might need to ask others to answer a question, rather than pretend to be a know-it-all like some of the current jokes on the School Board.

In any case, the stock answer about state funding formulas is to claim
Fairfax should get more from the state and ROVA should get less.  That’s outside the School Board’s ability to decide, and saying Fairfax should get more doesn’t just make it happen. [/quote]

ROVA gets so much. FCPS doesn't get what we put in. We need people on the board who understand this and will lobby our legislators to advocate for fixing the formula. That's why it'll be great to have people like Laura Jane Cohen and Stella Pekarsky in the GA who understand the formulas.[/quote]

There is some merit to this argument.

However, if northern Virginia delegates fight for funding distribution on the state level based off the percentage of taxes paid into the state pot, then returned to the county for education, doesn't that also mean McLean, Langly, Fairfax Station and Vienna wealthy parents can also argue that since they pay the most money into the tax pot, they should receive more money than the poorer schools like Mount Vernon.

Or does the NoVA delegates arguing that Virginia should get more state tax money returned since NoVA is the wealthiest and pays the most taxes to the state, that the many times more funds given to ESOL and FARMS students across Fairfax county schools like Lewis, Mount Vernon and Justice be reduced significantly so the wealthy and English speaking students can receive an equal amount of per pupil funds or proportionally more, since the Langley, Vienna, McLean and Fairfax Station parents are paying much more in taxes?

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