Citizen Audits Wrote:
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> > There has been THIRD party studies done you
> just
> > tend to ignore them or not believe them and say
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> No, we use facts to show how the so-called
> "studies" are created to justify spending. For
> example, this study:
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http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/fi
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> les/A4VUUT686987/$file/FCPS%20-%20Presentation%20t
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> > o%20School%20Board%20Work%20Session.pdf
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> attempted to show that teachers need a pay raise,
> but failed to include that teachers who left
> teaching at FCPS citing pay actually went into
> full-time careers with full-year pay. In many
> cases, they did not need the gold-plated benefits
> program that FCPS offers, and had no children so
> they did not see much benefit in all the days
> off.
>
> The study also stated that 200 teacher positions
> were vacant at the beginning of the school year,
> but left out that every student had multiple
> teachers available to them.
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> If there had been 200 classrooms without teachers
> on the first day of school you would have read
> about it in the news.
>
> This is not just smoke and mirrors. It's fraud by
> FCPS, maybe even criminal.
I'm just curious. What would be an example of a "gold plated benefit"?