Sunday, May 20, 2012
News Roundup
In case you missed some of the news around McLean last week: Monday May 14 McLean Project for the Arts Birthday Bash. Hundreds gather to celebrate 50 years of the arts in McLean. New Voter Registration Cards. Half of McLean officially notified of new congressional district. Traffic Alert. Up to 30 minute closings of the Capital Beltway, Dulles Toll Road in Tysons Corner this week. Also deliveries for construction of traction station will disrupt traffic. Tuesday May 15 Parents Stunned by Drinking. McLean parents hear results of youth survey. New Security Director at Madeira. McLean's elite private school hires a new protector of its students and campus. Self-Defense Classes for Women. Fairfax police sponsor classes to help women of all …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Boys and girls teams win championships
By Dick Rosenbaum and Bobbi Bowman UPDATE: The McLean High School soccer teams, both the boys and girls teams, won their championship games last night in the Liberty District. The lady Highlanders clinched their championship first by defeating Stone Bridge, 1-0. Then the McLean boys defeated their crosstown rival Langley, 1-0. Some neighbors shared a video of the boys championship game. ORIGINAL STORY. The McLean High School girls and boys soccer teams will play for the Liberty District Championship titles this evening at Madison High School. The McLean girls advanced to the finals by defeating the Langley High School girls 2-1 Wednesday evening. The girls will face the Stone Bridge girls beginning at 6pm at Madison. The McLean and …
Police roundup
McLean Police District News: Beware Speeders. The McLean Police District commander has created a new traffic enforcement team to mainly catch speeders. Several readers have asked about seeing police cars on Chain Bridge Road between downtown and Great Falls. Here's your answer. District Commander Capt. Dan Janickey told the McLean Citizens Advisory Committee Thursday night he had created a new five-officer team to enforce pedestrian safety, seat belt use, distracted driving and speeding laws. "We don’t have a high crime rate" in McLean District so "our emphasis will be on traffic safety," Capt. Janickey told the CAC. The new team started working two weeks ago and has been active on Chain Bridge Road, along Kirby Road in the vicinity of …
Yorktown High School student's work will be displayed at U.S. Capitol for one year.
More than 60 pieces of art created by high school students across the 8th Congressional District will be on display at the Artisphere in Rosslyn through June 17. The exhibition is the result of the annual Congressional Art Competition, which began in 1982 to give members of Congress a chance to encourage and recognize young artistic talent. "Lady of Rain," a photograph by 18-year-old Ryan Carroll, a Yorktown High School senior, won the contest and will be displayed at the U.S. Capitol along with the winners from other congressional districts across the country. The black-and-white photograph depicts a woman on a beach in Massachusetts looking across the water toward distant smokestacks. She's holding an umbrella, unfurled, which itself …
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Fairfax County Public Schools staff is looking into possibility of deferring budget approval
The Fairfax County School Board continued to debate how to implement changes to the Virginia Retirement System into the fiscal 2013 budget during a work session Thursday, with most of the members leaning toward phasing in the required shift to 5 percent employee contributions. Susan Quinn, chief financial officer for Fairfax County Public Schools, presented six of the hundreds of options for how to adjust VRS and Educational Employees' Supplementary Retirement System of Fairfax County (ERFC) contributions, market-scale adjustments and STEP increases. [See the options in a PDF included with this article.] Option A showed Superintendent Jack Dale's proposal, which would have FCPS complete the 5 percent shift in fiscal year 2013 and eliminate…
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Both McLean teams in district semi-finals
By Dick Rosenbaum UPDATE: The McLean boys soccer team defeated Thomas Jefferson in the Liberty District semi-finals this afternoon. McLean plays in the district championship Friday (tomorrow) at 8pm at Madison High School against the winner of the South Lakes - Langley match now underway at Stone Bridge. ORIGINAL STORY: The McLean and Langley High School boys soccer teams advance to the semi-finals in the Liberty District tournament and play each other this afternoon at Stone Bridge High School beginning at 5pm. In first round action, McLean defeated Stone Bridge 2-1 and Langley defeated Fairfax 1-0. In other first round action, Jefferson defeated Marshall 3-0 and South Lakes defeated Madison 1-0. These two teams will meet in the semi-…
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Wednesday, May 16
Good Morning McLean, What They Said, What They Did. Comparing campaign statements by an incumbent McLean Community Center board member with her record. Deadline for Absentee Voting. Today last day to vote by absentee ballot for candidates running for the McLeanCommunity Center board.
School board will hold a work session on the budget Thursday
A week before the Fairfax County School Board is scheduled to approve a fiscal year 2013 budget, community members advocated Tuesday for closing achievement gaps, increasing funding for employee compensation and providing benefits to parent liaisons at a public hearing for next year's spending plan. Superintendant Jack Dale presented his adjustments to the $2.4 billion budget during a markup session Monday, which removes step increases for eligible employees and calls for a 2 percent compensation market rate adjustment (MRA). The payment changes come in light of this year's General Assembly legislation requiring public school employees who participate in the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to pay a 5 percent employee contribution, which …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Superintendent Jack Dale proposes eliminating compensation adjustments in favor of meeting five-year state requirement within the next year
Though Superintendent Jack Dale presented his recommendation for adjustments to Fairfax County Public Schools' $2.4 billion advertised budget at a work session Monday, some school board members said they weren't satisfied his proposed changes fully met their priorities or produced a budget that best met the needs of the system. Dale returned to the board after the system's $1.68 billion transfer from the county Board of Supervisors, an amount 4.5 percent higher than what schools received last year but still short of the 8.4 percent increase board members asked for when they moved forward the approved advertised budget. Despite the school board's approval of the advertised budget in February, Dale and School Board Chairwoman Janie Strauss…
Parents Hear Results of Youth Survey.
Some of the 100 parents who gathered recently were surprised at the results of the annual countywide survey of alcohol abuse among students attending McLean area middle and high schools: For the first time since the Fairfax County Youth Survey has been administered to students in the county's school system, specific information was available about each high school pyramid and made available to parents. In an open forum at McLean High School called by the Parent, Teacher Student Association, a representative from the Fairfax County Public Schools presented the McLean pyramid-specific results of the survey, which examines behaviors, experiences and other factors that influence the health and well-being of the county’s youth. Some of the most…
dian parrotta
11:53 am on Sunday, May 20, 2012
Anything will be better than FCPS present day practice of Setting up "Seasoned Teachers to Fail" instead of allowing them receive a full 30 year retirement. more ›