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Strauss has a lot of low-income schools in Herndon in her district. She consistently votes to allocate more money to those schools and other low-income schools. As for her backyard, she's kept a Title I elementary school zoned to the high school for her own neighborhood, although that school is closer to two other high schools.

She sure did not want her affluent neighborhoods (very close to South Lakes) sent to South Lakes during the boundary change. A couple of them were the logical choice.

So, again, your problem is that she hasn't been progressive enough? Because her Republican opponents would have kept Langley out of the South Lakes redistricting, found a way to redistrict the Title I school zoned for McLean to another high school, and pushed to redistribute FCPS resources away from Strauss's other Title I schools in Herndon.

Not to mention that, had some of the Langley neighborhoods been moved to South Lakes in 2008, South Lakes or other crowded schools in western Fairfax would be even more crowded now, and Langley, which was the third smallest high school in the county last year, would be even more below capacity.

Strauss has a lot of low-income schools in Herndon in her district. She consistently votes to allocate more money to those schools and other low-income schools. As for her backyard, she's kept a Title I elementary school zoned to the high school for her own neighborhood, although that school is closer to two other high schools.

She sure did not want her affluent neighborhoods (very close to South Lakes) sent to South Lakes during the boundary change. A couple of them were the logical choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Still, say what you want. Elizabeth Schultz calls out the social engineering crap the Board engages in and refocuses them back on policy making and guidance. Sometimes the Board doesn’t follow their own procedures but it’s not because someone doesn’t try to keep them honest. She does.

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Most of the day-to-day management of FCPS is handled by the Superintendent and those who work for him. They do a very good job. There is no better school superintendent in the DC region than Scott Brabrand.

The School Board oversees FCPS and deals with broader policy issues. Most of those are non-controversial, but Schultz has tried to derail just about every initiative that she thinks her Tea Party masters would find objectionable. She isn't successful, and all she's does is make sure that many Board meetings last until well after midnight due to her grandstanding. The only people who benefit are the police and custodians who get paid overtime for hanging around later. It certainly doesn't benefit the Springfield District to have a Board member so out of step with both her colleagues and the vast majority of the county's residents.

Schultz is the only school board member with a willingness to stand up against the other wasteful school board members.

We need a balanced school board. Not this heavily one sided partisan school board consisting of no moderates, 2 conservatives and almost entirely very liberal members who are either like Strauss (liberal policies for everyone else but not in my back yard) or McElven who thinks that fcps is one huge social experiment where academics, class sizes and teacher pay are at the bottom of the priority list.

What are you talking about?

Strauss has a lot of low-income schools in Herndon in her district. She consistently votes to allocate more money to those schools and other low-income schools. As for her backyard, she's kept a Title I elementary school zoned to the high school for her own neighborhood, although that school is closer to two other high schools.

McElveen has consistently supported more academic options, lower class sizes, and higher teacher pay. If you think people will buy the notion that, if you support rights for minorities or LBGTQ kids, you somehow must not care about academics, class sizes, or teacher pay, you are underestimating county residents.

Schultz is more than willing to debate other School Board members about any issue that she thinks will resonate with conservative Republicans. It's not clear that she's accomplished anything for the Springfield District, or that families in her district benefit from having a representative who is neither liked nor trusted by other SB members. She got through one cycle with no one challenging her for re-election, but it looks like the Democrats will pull out the stops to defeat her next fall.

Schultz is the only school board member with a willingness to stand up against the other wasteful school board members.

We need a balanced school board. Not this heavily one sided partisan school board consisting of no moderates, 2 conservatives and almost entirely very liberal members who are either like Strauss (liberal policies for everyone else but not in my back yard) or McElven who thinks that fcps is one huge social experiment where academics, class sizes and teacher pay are at the bottom of the priority list.

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Anonymous wrote:Still, say what you want. Elizabeth Schultz calls out the social engineering crap the Board engages in and refocuses them back on policy making and guidance. Sometimes the Board doesn’t follow their own procedures but it’s not because someone doesn’t try to keep them honest. She does.

x100!!!!

Most of the day-to-day management of FCPS is handled by the Superintendent and those who work for him. They do a very good job. There is no better school superintendent in the DC region than Scott Brabrand.

The School Board oversees FCPS and deals with broader policy issues. Most of those are non-controversial, but Schultz has tried to derail just about every initiative that she thinks her Tea Party masters would find objectionable. She isn't successful, and all she's does is make sure that many Board meetings last until well after midnight due to her grandstanding. The only people who benefit are the police and custodians who get paid overtime for hanging around later. It certainly doesn't benefit the Springfield District to have a Board member so out of step with both her colleagues and the vast majority of the county's residents.

Schultz is the only school board member with a willingness to stand up against the other wasteful school board members.

We need a balanced school board. Not this heavily one sided partisan school board consisting of no moderates, 2 conservatives and almost entirely very liberal members who are either like Strauss (liberal policies for everyone else but not in my back yard) or McElven who thinks that fcps is one huge social experiment where academics, class sizes and teacher pay are at the bottom of the priority list.

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Anonymous wrote:Still, say what you want. Elizabeth Schultz calls out the social engineering crap the Board engages in and refocuses them back on policy making and guidance. Sometimes the Board doesn’t follow their own procedures but it’s not because someone doesn’t try to keep them honest. She does.

x100!!!!

Most of the day-to-day management of FCPS is handled by the Superintendent and those who work for him. They do a very good job. There is no better school superintendent in the DC region than Scott Brabrand.

The School Board oversees FCPS and deals with broader policy issues. Most of those are non-controversial, but Schultz has tried to derail just about every initiative that she thinks her Tea Party masters would find objectionable. She isn't successful, and all she's does is make sure that many Board meetings last until well after midnight due to her grandstanding. The only people who benefit are the police and custodians who get paid overtime for hanging around later. It certainly doesn't benefit the Springfield District to have a Board member so out of step with both her colleagues and the vast majority of the county's residents.

Schultz is the only school board member with a willingness to stand up against the other wasteful school board members.

We need a balanced school board. Not this heavily one sided partisan school board consisting of no moderates, 2 conservatives and almost entirely very liberal members who are either like Strauss (liberal policies for everyone else but not in my back yard) or McElven who thinks that fcps is one huge social experiment where academics, class sizes and teacher pay are at the bottom of the priority list.

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The Republicans don’t want to spend money on new public schools. They want to starve public schools and push people into charters and private schools. Betsy DeVos is typical of this mindset.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. The School Board is more than happy to build new schools--the bonds always pass. They just don't want to deal with the politics of the issue.

PP, the SB spends an inordinate amount of time talking about how to close the achievement gap. Meanwhile, they are terrified and personally support the lobby that is AAP. That's the hypocrisy of the whole thing. They support segregation --as long as it is AAP.

Unfortunately most of our neighborhoods in Fairfax are segregated. The magnet programs like AAP, IB, Academy, Immersion, etc. are keeping some of the schools in poorer neighborhoods from getting worse and some are actually uplifting neighborhoods with their school reputation. The school board should work better on keeping AAP and other programs in check than eliminating them. They are already doing a terrible job of boudary adjustments.

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Anonymous wrote:Still, say what you want. Elizabeth Schultz calls out the social engineering crap the Board engages in and refocuses them back on policy making and guidance. Sometimes the Board doesn’t follow their own procedures but it’s not because someone doesn’t try to keep them honest. She does.

x100!!!!

Most of the day-to-day management of FCPS is handled by the Superintendent and those who work for him. They do a very good job. There is no better school superintendent in the DC region than Scott Brabrand.

The School Board oversees FCPS and deals with broader policy issues. Most of those are non-controversial, but Schultz has tried to derail just about every initiative that she thinks her Tea Party masters would find objectionable. She isn't successful, and all she's does is make sure that many Board meetings last until well after midnight due to her grandstanding. The only people who benefit are the police and custodians who get paid overtime for hanging around later. It certainly doesn't benefit the Springfield District to have a Board member so out of step with both her colleagues and the vast majority of the county's residents.

Anonymous wrote:It is too large to be managed properly, OP. That is all you need to know.

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Anonymous wrote:Still, say what you want. Elizabeth Schultz calls out the social engineering crap the Board engages in and refocuses them back on policy making and guidance. Sometimes the Board doesn’t follow their own procedures but it’s not because someone doesn’t try to keep them honest. She does.

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Let me guess. This thread was started by that girl trying to run against Shultz.

Still, say what you want. Elizabeth Schultz calls out the social engineering crap the Board engages in and refocuses them back on policy making and guidance. Sometimes the Board doesn’t follow their own procedures but it’s not because someone doesn’t try to keep them honest. She does.

They are terrified of making necessary changes most people agree on because it will make some people unhappy.

They need a Western County magnet high school/ Governors School, so we stop having to send so many kids an hour away to TJ. Some kids go for STEM. But some go for the magnet. TJ has STEM covered, my vote is for a test in magnget IB HS— maybe at SLHS. One where every kid who attends is required to do full IB diploma. I would also be in favor of a smaller Governor’s School of Perfprming Arts. We’ve shown there is a lot of demand for Governors Schools/magnet schools. Time to replicate it.

Themed to suck it up, build a new Western County HS, and rezone the Western County. Right now, they hope they can just put off rezoning by expanding indefinitely.they can’t. They schools are getting too big,

They need to make kids go to their assigned MS for AAP unless the MS has too few kids to support it. Then clean up the feeder patterns. Carson is feeding 4 HSs and TJ. That’s bonkers. Especially since 1/2 their kids are Franklin based. That’s plenty for a Center. Keep them at Franklin.

You guys need to get a life.

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Anonymous wrote:The Fairfax County School Board has been dominated for years by the Democrats and under their oversight FCPS schools have become increasingly segregated. They were not passive observers in this process, but have taken multiple actions that have caused the segregation to get worse.

I see. So the Democrats on the School Board are too liberal, except when they aren't liberal enough.

The last Republican who ran (and lost) for our School Board seat ran on a platform of spending less money on lower-income schools and redistributing resources to wealthy schools. The incumbent Democrat, while she hasn't done anything to balance the demographics at county schools for a decade, at least supports spending more money on the students who need it most.

So, the Democratic way is separate, but equal (or maybe give them a bit more as long as they are not in school with our kids)?

They have moved wealthy kids out of Lee to West Springfield, wealthy kids out of Annandale to Lake Braddock, they won't move any kids from West Potomac (overcrowded) to Mt. Vernon (available space), and they won't build the western high school because too many folks are afraid of the boundary changes involved - which would include moving kids from Langley to Herndon. They have been spending our tax dollars to expand schools because they are so afraid to touch the boundaries.

Many on the School Board need to go. Some have been on it way too long (I'm looking at you Moon and Strauss) and some are way too political (McAlveen, Schultz, Hynes, Evans). They are all afraid of the cascading boundary changes that would be brought on by a new western high school.

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Ridiculous.

The Republicans don’t want to spend money on new public schools. They want to starve public schools and push people into charters and private schools. Betsy DeVos is typical of this mindset.

Charter schools in Fairfax County could be very positive - provide some benchmarks to assess our public schools against. As it is now, there is no way to assess the performance of the schools. The School Board is focuse on protecting their sinecure and riding on their reputation - but this can't go on for much longer as people are becoming aware of the deficiencies and the inequities. When you have a Langley and a McLean with ~90% capacity and bordering schools at 106%+ it's hard to claim that you're serving the students... And btw, no one is pushing people into private schools - they are choosing to pay to go for an exceptional education, one they used to get in FCPS but no more.

Charter schools never provide sound benchmarks. Usually they just trick people into signing up and then counsel out students whose test scores might not help them look good.

As for the enrollments, your facts are wrong. Langley is under-enrolled. McLean and Marshall are well above 100% capacity now. That is why there is a separate thread on potential boundary shifts from McLean and Marshall to Langley.