Fairfax School Board Opens Budget Talks to Community
Tuesday's community dialogue asks residents, community groups for their budget priorities.
Have something to say about the Fairfax County Public Schools budget for Fiscal Year 2014? Tuesday is the first chance of several over the next two months to share your perspective. The community dialogue, which begins at 6 p.m. in the Gatehouse Administration Center Cafe in Falls Church, is an effort revamped this year to be more inclusive of all residents — not just specific county groups. School board member Ryan McElveen (At-large) said last year, the school board invited community groups to a similar dialogue, setting them at a roundtable for a budget presentation and then breaking them into two groups tasked with forming a list of budget priorities. This year, the board is inviting specific community groups as well as the community …
Bob Bruhns
7:37 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
Nice try, pen-namer JD, but the report assumes inflation at 1.7 to 2.0 over the period in question. Sorry if some people can't do simple arithmetic. And if our schools can't provide proper texts for the arithmetic and mathematics that they are teaching (or supposedly teaching) to our kids, that situation is going to get worse. more ›