Parents: New FCPS Leader Should Maximize Limited Budget, Show Respect
Tuesday forum in McLean was second in series of community meetings this week about replacing retiring Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale.
Parents at a community meeting Tuesday designed to gather input about Fairfax County's next superintendent say the new leader will step into an excellent school system, but also one with dwindling resources and an achievement gap it is struggling to close — challenges they said would be best navigated by someone who could maximize a limited budget and respect and listen to the community. The Tuesday meeting at Langley High School in McLean was one of several this week facilitated by the search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, the company hired to lead the search for a new Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent as Superintendent Jack Dale's retirement approaches in June. The firm also led the search for Montgomery County Public…
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Arielle Masters
9:37 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
Supports high achievers? Quite a few have been left spinning their wheels ever since NCLB got implemented. There are some who come into elementary school liking math and then do little to nothing other than what they've already done for the next few years, while the school gets everyone to the same place. By then, these kids don't like math any more. more ›