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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone thing people in Bethesda/Potomac might start to de-camp to Fairfax County?  FCPS seems to have less drama in the overall funding.  [/quote]

Less drama?

[i]Due to years of chronic underfunding coupled with a decade of significant enrollment growth and increasing student needs, we will notbe able to sustain the current quality nor the full range of academic programming we currently offer our students. We have sought to protect the classroom to date, but with the scale of the FY 2017 shortfall, we will have to take a serious look at the programs that we must cut starting in the 2016-17 school year. These cuts will likely affect all current academic programming including limiting elective choices, reducing career and technical programs, impacting advanced offerings, and again raising class sizes at all levels. We must make these difficult choices by December 2015 because students begin their course selections in January 2016.

Since 2008, we have cut 2,175 positions and nearly a half-billion dollars from our budget affecting every school and department. We have fallen so far behind in teacher salaries that we are no longer competitive and are losing talented staff to neighboring school districts. Our teachers are the reason FCPS students excel and achieve. Losing our most experienced teachers will have a significant effect on student performance and will ultimately affect the reputation of FCPS.[/i]

http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/fairfax%20/2015/04/29/superintendent-garza-makes-statement-on-fairfax-co-budget/26565599/#[/quote]

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