Education Issues in Fairfax County
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Fairfax County Public Schools By the Numbers:
FCPS School System
- 10th largest school system
- ~75% of Fairfax County’s 1.1 million residents do not currently have children in FCPS
- 198 schools and centers
- 800+ trailers
- 27.5 million square feet of covered infrastructure facilities, plus another 1+ million square feet in temporary facilities (trailers)
- 1,630 buses, the largest school bus fleet in the United States
- 18.5 million bus miles traveled annually transporting 130,000 students daily
- 15,287 teacher positions
- 24,121 total full-time positions (includes teacher positions)
- ~14,000 additional part-time positions
FCPS School Board
- 12 Board Members – nine by Magisterial District, three at-Large; registered
- 4 total number of Board Members each voter may cast a ballot for, including one by the voter’s Magisterial District and three at-Large. The full Board is up for election in November, 2019 for the next four-year term.
FCPS Budget
- $2,870,278,776 Billion operational budget – primarily funded by Fairfax County residents (70.1 percent). The balance of the funding is from the Commonwealth of Virginia (23.1 percent), other sources (6.8 percent) and the federal government (1.6 percent)
- ~53% of the entire Fairfax County budget is transferred by the Board of Supervisors to the School Board for the FCPS Budget
- $404,874,411 of the $2.9 Billion budget is for retirement
- $155 Million in additional funds is for the Capital Improvement Plan Budget
- $15,318 average cost per student
FCPS Students
- 190,168 students – the upward trend for student population now means an increased projected estimate for fall 2018 enrollment
- 36,019 students (19%) ESOL
- 26,730 students (14.1%) Special Education
- 55,020 students (29.0%) Free and Reduced-Price Meals
- ~200 countries and territories represented in student population
- 160 languages spoken by student population
- 20,287 additional students from 2008-2017
- 2,028 average student increase every year
KEY LINKS:
- Budget Documents: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/budget/budget-documents
- Budget Questions and Responses: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/budget/budget-question-responses
- Capital Improvement Program: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/facilities-planning-future/capital-improvement-program
- School Board: https://www.fcps.edu/school-board
- Cox Channel 21 – Televised School Board Meetings
- School Board Meetings: https://www.fcps.edu/school-board/school-board-meetings
- School Board Meeting agendas, minutes, videos and photos: https://www.fcps.edu/school-board/agenda_minutes_photos
- FCPS Livestream: https://www.fcps.edu/tv
- School Board Meetings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSz76NCRDYQF3hPS2qS2SGEcoO4__Yd7Z
- Archived School Board Meeting Videos: https://www.fcps.edu/node/32692
- School Board Standing Committees: https://www.fcps.edu/school-board/school-board-committees
- About FCPS: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps
- One Fairfax: https://www.fcps.edu/onefairfax
ICYMI: Priscilla DeStefano on Fox & Friends
At-large school board candidate Priscilla DeStefano was on Fox & Friends Saturday morning, to discuss the Far Left’s drive to change suburban public schools.
On the Fairfax County School Board, there is virtually no check on the Left’s social engineering agenda. “There is a 10-seat majority of Democrat-backed candidates out of 12,” DeStefano noted. “They don’t have to listen to anyone — so they don’t”
Elizabeth Schultz: “Kids Before Politics”
Fairfax County School Board Member Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield District) was on WMAL’s Larry O’Connor Show Wednesday.
During her interview, Schultz broke down the county’s highly controversial “One Fairfax” scheme
Vinson Xavier Palathingal: “Restore Academic Rigor”
At-large school board candidate Vinson Xavier Palathingal was on WMAL’s Larry O’Connor show today.
Along with GOP-endorsed at-large candidates Cheryl Buford and Priscilla DeStefano, Vinson is determined to focus the school board on core educational issues
ICYMI: Priscilla DeStefano on WMAL
At-large school board candidate Priscilla DeStefano sat down with WMAL’s Larry O’Connor Thursday afternoon, to discuss the state of Fairfax County Public Schools
Focus on What’s Best for Kids, Not on Left-Wing Ideology
The majority of Fairfax County School Board members are obsessed with a far-left social agenda they call “One Fairfax.” In their ideological zeal, majority board members have lost their focus on what is best for students
VIDEO: “Change the Board, Not the Boundaries”
A new YouTube channel is blowing the whistle on Fairfax County’s “out of control” school board
Steven Mosley: Families Deserve Educational Options
This past week I met an African American mom at Whitman Middle School’s Back to School Night who expressed concern because when her 8th grader graduates from Whitman she will be placed into one of the lowest-performing high schools in our district. This parent was looking for other options. She asked me if elected what I would do to give parents more options
FCPS Superintendent Uses Taxpayer Resources to Misinform Public on School Boundary Changes
The Fairfax County Republican Committee (FCRC) calls for Scott Brabrand, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), to retract his recent video and message issued at taxpayer expense, in which he purportedly seeks “to clarify some misinformation that is unfortunately circulating in our community about school boundaries”