Parents Talk Overcrowding at Capital Improvement Hearing
Fairfax County school board members will vote on five-year school building, renovation plan later this month.
Parents and students told the Fairfax County School Board on Monday night it worried the 2014-2018 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) wouldn't adequately address overcrowding in all places. Doing small boundary adjustments to overcrowded areas and then readjusting the plan's renovation queue, which calculates the order in which major school repairs will occur, might be a better, more efficient long-term strategy, they said. The five-year CIP budget will total $871.2 million or roughly $174.2 million per year. Funds approved in the 2011 School Bond Referendum and previous referenda will address approximately $190.8 million of the five-year requirement, leaving a balance of $680.3 million unfunded. Officials expect another school bond referendum…
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8:45 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
http://tjpartnershipfund.org/renovation.html Within the link, there is also a link to their brochure for the $10 million of equipment. Why have we assumed that such schools and expenditures create a changed educational outcome? Recent studies indicate that for motivated and bright exam school students such schooling does not make a significant difference. more ›