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School Board Angers Community Many Call Process for Changing Programs for Needy Students Flawed Vol. XXI, No. 19 Mount Vernon’s Hometown Newspaper • A Connection Newspaper May 13, 2010 School Board Angers Community Many call process for changing programs for needy students flawed. By Julia O’Donoghue Recently, the U.S. Department of The Gazette Agriculture interviewed staff at and shot footage of Hollin Mead- aurie Blackburn calls the ows for a short instructional film /Gazette public school where her they intend to distribute to other Lson attends first grade school districts around the coun- extraordinary. She isn’t try. They want other teachers and the only one. principals to use Hollin Meadows Hollin Meadows Elementary has as a model for setting up their own drawn national attention for its gardening programs. LaShawn Avery outdoor gardening and science But the community at Hollin program, where students grow Meadows isn’t even sure that their food and learn about native plants own gardens will survive the Photos by Photos and insects on the school site. First Fairfax County School Board vote Lady Michelle Obama visited the on the annual budget May 20. Celebrating Mother’s Day at Woodlawn Mount Vernon school to learn Much of the funding used to pay Staff members Rebecea Myers-Lesak, Karen Kiday, more about its outdoor program for the school’s outdoor learning Stacy Haukins, Joan Irvin and Annette Miller at the last fall, and Hollin Meadows stu- space comes from two programs Mother’s Day tea inside the Woodlawn estate on May 9. dents have been invited to her veg- the school board has already indi etable garden at the White House two years in a row. See School Board, Page 3 Woodley Hills Worries About Loss of Funding School does not make cut for extra funding under new “needy Susan Cooper and her daughter Jennifer are school” proposal. served treats by Joan Irvin. also served with the Sally Hazard, Mother’s Day tea are By Julia O’Donoghue Woodley Hills cornbread muffins made The Gazette Elementary Celtic harp player Chris Van Dyke performs for guests with corn-milled from School as they sip a special Woodlawn blend of tea on George Washington’s everal representatives from Mother’s Day. gristmill. SWoodley Hills Elementary The following are two represen- School came to the Fairfax tatives who spoke on behalf of the County School Board’s final bud- Woodley Hills Community. get hearing May 12 to complain Sally Hazard, a parent and em- Five Schools Cited as Low Performers about potentially drastic cuts in ployee at Woodley Hills Elemen- he Virginia Department of Education has federal No Child Left Behind law. the school’s funding and programs tary School in Mount Vernon, is Tawarded extra assistance to six Fairfax All five schools have among the most challenging next year. The school board will upset that Fairfax County School County elementary schools who are having demographics in the school district. The percentages make its final budget decisions trouble meeting standards testing goals. Five of the of students living in poverty at Bucknell (69 percent), May 20. See Woodley Hills, Page 3 six schools are located along the Richmond High- Hollin Meadows (45 percent), Hybla Valley (83 per- way corridor. cent), Mount Vernon Woods (80 percent) and 5/14/10 Fairfax school officials expect the commonwealth Woodlawn (59 percent) are significantly higher than home in Requested material. to give Bucknell, Hollin Meadows, Hybla Valley, Fairfax as whole. Poor students make up about 25 Time-sensitive Mount Vernon Woods and Woodlawn elementary percent of Fairfax County Public Schools’ total popu- Postmaster: schools about $175,000 each next year to help boost lation. Bucknell, Hybla Valley, and Hollin Meadows Attention Permit #482 Permit academic performance. The Virginia education de- are part of the West Potomac High School pyramid. VA Alexandria, PAID partment is particularly concerned the schools have Mount Vernon Woods and Woodlawn are part of the Postage U.S. fallen short of the testing goal laid out under the Mount Vernon High School pyramid. STD PRSRT www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ May 13-19, 2010 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ May 13-19, 2010 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com News School Board Angers Supervisors, Community From Page 1 not leave them in the position of the school system’s new initiative not having any clear idea what for at-risk students were fuzzy be- cated it intends to eliminate next kind of school their children are cause the schools were not sure year. going to be going to in three how much funding they would The programs, Project Excel and months,” she said. receive from the county or the Vir- Focus, were established more than ginia government, said school a decade ago, in part to help el- THE FAIRFAX COUNTY Board board member Janie Strauss Photo by Photo ementary schools with a larger of Supervisors agreed with (Dranesville). percentage of needy students. Su- Blackburn. “It would have been great to let perintendent Jack Dale now says During county budget delibera- people know what was happening the money used for those pro- tions last month, several supervi- Louise Krafft in February, but we didn’t know grams can be spent more effec- sors called the school board irre- how much money we were going tively in another way. sponsible and insensitive to the to get and it looked pretty bad,” But what Dale’s new initiative community when it came to the said Strauss. entails is unclear and how much elimination of Project Excel and There were also several earlier money individual schools which Focus, as well as a year-round /Gazette indications that the school board benefited from Project Excel and school calendar program in place would be changing their approach Focus will receive has not been in a handful of county schools. to addressing the needs of stu- released. The Hollin Meadows Supervisors Gerry Hyland (D- dents in poverty. community, for example, is not Mount Vernon) and Cathy U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Riverside Last year, school board members sure whether they will get as much Hudgins (D-Hunter Mill), threat- Elementary School, a school that has two programs voted to use federal stimulus funding under Dale’s new plan as ened not to vote for the overall Fairfax County Public Schools is likely to eliminate. money to fund Project Excel, they have in the past or whether county budget — including the which provides an extended the school system will let them use more than $1.5 billion allocated that this was going to be ad- Several supervisors said the school day on Mondays at 16 el- any of the money to maintain the to the school system — because dressed. The details of the new school board should have had a ementary schools. The supervisors gardening program. they could not determine what program is still something that long and extensive community should have known that the stimu- “We have a program that three type of extra help the school board needs to be fleshed out,” said engagement process about elimi- lus money was limited and would weeks ago the USDA was here to would provide to schools with high Hyland. nating such long-standing pro- run out at the end of next year, film because they said it was five levels of poverty. Eventually, Hyland and Hudgins grams, especially since they affect said several school board mem- years ahead of the curve and we Even after meeting one on one supported the budget, partly be- some of the county’s most vulner- bers. don’t know what kind of hit that with Dale, both Hyland and cause the Board of Supervisors able children. The school board also excluded program is going to take,” said Hudgins said they weren’t clear on voted 8-2 to consider providing “I hold three public hearings funding for Focus or Excel when Blackburn. what Dale planned to do for stu- extra money to the school system when a gas station wants to they initially voted on next year’s “When you are changing from dents who are poor and need to to support a transition plan for change the color of its awning. school budget last January. Then, an old program to a new program, learn English next year. those schools losing Excel, Focus This is a policy shift of much more they voted to discontinue the year- you should bring people along and “I didn’t have a comfort level and a year-round school calendar. importance,” said Supervisor Jeff round school calendar in February. McKay (D-Lee). That same month, the school system sent out letters to teachers UNDER THE LAW, the supervi- at the 16 Project Excel schools, Woodley Hills Left Off ‘Priority’ List sors cannot legally tell the school including Hollin Meadows, in- board how to spend the money the forming them that they would be From Page 1 Anna board to “throw out” a proposal county turns over to it each year. likely to receive a pay cut next year Cushman, from Dale that would reorganize They also cannot require the because the program was likely to Board is likely to eliminate two Woodley Hills the way funding for needy stu- school board to hold hearings be eliminated this May. special programs that provide ex- PTA president dents was distributed. about the elimination of certain In defense of the school system, tra funding and staff to Woodley Cushman complained that programs. Dale and many school board mem- Hills currently. because its demo- Dale’s “priority schools” initiative “If the Board of Supervisors bers also pointed out that the most The school is part of the graphics are chal- was vague at best.
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