Fairfax School Board Moves Budget Forward
Members vote to increase request in county transfer to fund field custodians, remedies to achievement gap issues.
The Fairfax County School Board approved an advertised $2.5 billion fiscal year 2014 budget Thursday that asks county supervisors for $3 million more in their annual transfer to the system, to fund field custodian positions and add more part-time advanced academic resource teachers in elementary schools with high risk populations. That request comes on top of a 5.5 percent increase ($92.4 million) in funding from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors — for a total transfer of $1.77 billion — already in the proposal Superintendent Jack Dale unveiled last month. The 10-2 vote sends the spending plan to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Fairfax County Executive Ed Long will release his budget Feb. 26. Board members passed three …
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Kathy Keith
12:41 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
Once again, I am stunned. So, Jack Dale did not fill custodian slots authorized last year by the school board because he was afraid he would have to fire them this year? Let's see, 20 additional Fairfax County residents might have been employed this past year. Schools needing custodial help could have had it. Did we have to pay overtime to current custodians? Please tell me what I am missing here… more ›