Loudoun Schools Dais

Speak Up or Prepare for a Disaster

This next week will be the public's opportunity to comment on next year's School operating budget.  The BOS is only allowing people to speak once.  Here is the schedule:

February 25, Wednesday
Loudoun County Board of Supervisors: 6 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Meeting Room in the Government Center, 1 Harrison St. SW, Leesburg

 

February 26, Thursday
Loudoun County Board of Supervisors: 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Meeting Room in the Government Center, 1 Harrison St. SW, Leesburg

 

February 28, Saturday
Loudoun County Board of Supervisors: 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. in the School Board Meeting Room, School Administrative Offices, 21000 Education Court, Ashburn

 

If you support funding for the schools, please come and speak. In ten years, only ten persons have come to the School Board's meetings to ask that the School's Budget be cut. This year, we had a gentleman come and ask us to increase the health care co-pays. That was done.  If the Board of Supervisors doesn't hear from you, they'll assume its ok to "Butcher" our educational programs.

 

Never Say Anything in an E-mail That You Don't Want Everyone to See

Never say anything in an e-mail that you don't want everyone to see! Pam Taggert, the Co-Chairperson of the Loudoun Chapter of the NAACP's Education Committee, sent an e-mail last Friday to the School Board and Board of Supervisors concerning the Washington Post's story concerning our Superintendents travel to conferences.  My response went to all of the people Pam included on her e-mail but also ended up on a blog called Too Conservative.  I stand by what I said, here is my e-mail:

 

Pam;

 I think it is great that our highly experienced Superintendent is both highly in demand and also willing to learn new things. Yes, Dr. Hatrick traveled a lot, but the overwhelming majority of the costs were borne by others, like the State Department, not Loudoun County. Also, professional development is part of his contract with the School Board. Although he sometimes may not be physically in the County, he is still on top of issues and available. And when he is here he puts in more time and energy into his job than anyone I know. Do you know of any executive in government or business that puts more into their job?

Additionally, I hope you're well, I didn't see you at either the February MSAAC or the School Board's Budget Meetings. I would hope that the NAACP Education Committee would review our FY2010 Approved Operating Budget and the 'infamous' tiers and provide comments to the Board of Supervisors concerning the impacts on minority student performance and minority employee hiring/retention.

 

Respectfully Yours,

 

~TR