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Old 04-19-2012, 05:17 PM
 
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Fairfax County’s School Board approved an optimistic budget proposal in February that assumed that supervisors would boost the county transfer next school year by $136 million, or 8.4 percent.
But last week, School Board Chairwoman Jane K. Strauss told supervisors during a budget hearing that the board is now seeking an increase of just 5 percent, or about $80 million.
Strauss’s decision to reduce the request for county dollars came as a surprise to many of her board colleagues-


Budget outlook bleaker for Fairfax schools - Virginia Schools Insider - The Washington Post
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Old 04-25-2012, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Suburbia
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Jane Strauss has been on the Fairfax County School Board for a long time. So her misrepresentation of the Board's approved budget at the Board of Supervisors' public hearing on April 10 not only angered her fellow board members, it left county residents scratching their heads in disbelief, and the executive board of the local teachers' union calling for Strauss' censure or removal.

Fairfax School Board could use a new chairman | Washington Examiner
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