It means;

1) The Fairfax County School Board (FCSB) supports local revenue flexibility to accommodate various economic and demographic conditions and assist local governments in creating systems of taxation that are sensible, fair, stable, and reflect local priorities. This would include expanding local taxing authority and the flexibility over the use of generated revenue available to the Commonwealth’s 95 counties to match authority already available to its 39 cities, as well as referendum authority to raise local sales taxes with revenues dedicated to school facilities.

2) The FCSB supports addressing the issue of collecting state sales tax on internet purchases.

3) The FCSB supports local school board flexibility to charge appropriate fees for programs and activities that are not directly related to core educational programs.

4) The FCSB supports fiscal autonomy for locally elected local school boards.

In other words, they want the ability to levy local sales taxes, levy sales taxes on your Amazon internet purchases, assess a meals tax without getting the electorate's approval through the use of a referendum and the ability to tell the Board of Supervisors to go screw themselves on budgetary matters. Specifically, this means that they would establish their budget, raise taxes as much as what they wish and approve it without consultation with the Board of Supervisors and accountable to NOBODY!!!

Unbelievable, sure won't be voting for her. This is crazy.

Bump

Well the globalist stooges that are the democrat party must be able to continue to fund the goddamn ESL brownskins so that we can be 'diverse'.


Seriously people, the only way to stop the cockroach democrat party in it's tracks is by electing people like Corey Stewart and Trump. There is no other way. Genteel politicking doesn't work with the SJW progs. They have to be wiped out.

bobthort Wrote:
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> Well the globalist stooges that are the democrat
> party must be able to continue to fund the goddamn
> ESL brownskins so that we can be 'diverse'.
>
>
> Seriously people, the only way to stop the
> cockroach democrat party in it's tracks is by
> electing people like Corey Stewart and Trump.
> There is no other way. Genteel politicking doesn't
> work with the SJW progs. They have to be wiped
> out.

Dust off those guns that have not been used in 20 years. I think they will be needed.

We pay enough taxes already! I do not support giving the School Board taxing authority. The meals tax was already defeated.

Do not vote for this loon.

bobthort Wrote:
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> Well the globalist stooges that are the democrat
> party must be able to continue to fund the goddamn
> ESL brownskins so that we can be 'diverse'.
>
>
> Seriously people, the only way to stop the
> cockroach democrat party in it's tracks is by
> electing people like Corey Stewart and Trump.
> There is no other way. Genteel politicking doesn't
> work with the SJW progs. They have to be wiped
> out.
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SaraGee Wrote:
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> We pay enough taxes already! I do not support
> giving the School Board taxing authority. The
> meals tax was already defeated.
>
> Do not vote for this loon.

If you do not want this woman to get elected you must talk to your friends and make sure that they vote for Chris Grisafe. This will be a low turnout election and will be decided by a relatively few voters that choose to show up on the @9th. Vote for Chirs Grisafe!

She will win and FCPS will spend all the money the Board says they do not have on:

changing the names of schools;
pushing social agendas; and, scheduling more anti-bullying workshops for teachers.

I take it that FCPS does not currently do anything to prevent bullying. Is this just another issue that the School Board has swept under the rug or is it more bull shit to spend the money that the County does not have?

Vote Chris, he's the best choice.

She'll probably go along with Pat Hynes. Focus on "equity" (did you know FCPS is looking for an asst Supe for equity?) Renewable energy. Teacher pay. Classroom size. So, she says, we have to find the revenue for all this--which is our community........ (translation: taxes). Hynes did not mention renaming schools in this interview--but, we already know where she stands on that.

Interview with Hynes, McElveen and Palchik.



https://readthinkact.com/fairfax-county-schools-2017/

Put a tax on illegals.

Win-win.

The common thread in the three SB Member interviews is the lack of focus on actual classroom issues. Only Hynes got close to doing that and it only affected the classroom in a tangential way. As what could be expected McElveen believes that there are only LGBT kids in Fairfax schools and Palchik seems to think that she works for Metro with her transportation logistics agenda.

Inquisitive One Wrote:
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> The common thread in the three SB Member
> interviews is the lack of focus on actual
> classroom issues. Only Hynes got close to doing
> that and it only affected the classroom in a
> tangential way. As what could be expected
> McElveen believes that there are only LGBT kids in
> Fairfax schools and Palchik seems to think that
> she works for Metro with her transportation
> logistics agenda.

Bingo!
So, here are our issues from the SB:
LGBT
More revenue (read "taxes")
Keeping "support" people at Gatehouse (Hynes mentioned that before classroom size)
Public Transportation (should this really be a SB issue?)
Renaming schools (not mentioned in interview, but clearly on their agenda)
Renewable energy
Anti bullying--but only if you are LGBT
Teacher pay
Classroom size (but only as an afterthought and if we get more taxes)

Just a thought here: Shouldn't classroom size and teacher pay be at the top of the list?

The thing is I do not know if it is incompetence or a callous and calculating strategy but the school Board doesn't give a shit about teacher's pay or student-teacher ratios until they are looking for an increase in the transfer payment from the Board of Supervisors. Keys-Gamarra is on board with the current SB crew and wants to focus on bullying, of all things. If a teacher and current administration is not controlling and/or disciplining for bullying they are not doing their job and should be looking for employment elsewhere. But that is just me...

Pretty sure that FCPS teachers are pretty well aware already of the bullying issue. What is Keys' new plan to counter bullying? What money are we going to spend now on outside experts?

I grew up a long time ago. There were bullies then, too. And, yes, sometimes they got away with it, which is unfortunate.

Did you know that a misuse of a pronoun for a transgender person is now considered bullying? Even if you have always known that person as a member of the opposite sex than they choose? In fact, some choose "they" as their pronoun. Not sure if you are supposed to say "they is" or "they are" when referring to them.

Who's the bully here?

There's only one candidate who will protect our kids rights to sex separated privacy in locker rooms, showers, school overnight trips, etc.

That is Grisafe. The others will force the kids to change next to someone of the opposite sex.

Keys-Gamarra and Owens are full on stop separating them by boys/girls, we shouldn't have labels. They are both out of touch with parents.

Keys-Gamarra said in the paper that she was against the Obama mandate on schools, but then in other interviews says she is for the Obama mandate.

Seems like she is a typical slimy politician, just say what the audience wants to hear to get elected, then do what she wants regardless of the voters.

Seems like she didn't want readers of the paper to know her real position. Typical slime.

hxpbx Wrote:
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> Keys-Gamarra said in the paper that she was
> against the Obama mandate on schools, but then in
> other interviews says she is for the Obama
> mandate.
>
> Seems like she is a typical slimy politician, just
> say what the audience wants to hear to get
> elected, then do what she wants regardless of the
> voters.
>
> Seems like she didn't want readers of the paper to
> know her real position. Typical slime.

Oh she is a true blue democrat so you can be assured that she would go with the Obama mandate for LGBT restroom issue even though she says that she is "not going to get involved." She just knows that she must avoid that label until she is elected. At that time she will suddenly become ENLIGTENED and see the errors of her ways! BTW, remember when Obama was against gay marriage when he needed the campaign contributions? Identical situation.

She is the worst Planning Commissioner that we have ever had. She never asks questions in the land use meetings and just sits there. She is a lame excuse. Do not vote for her!

Her campaign has brought in people from DC to go door to door. It's on her twitter and facebook.

She's also not running against other SB candidates--she is running against Trump. I was kind of surprised to see that he wants to be on FCPS School Board.

SB is supposed to be non-partisan, but her sites are full of partisan links. Especially for fund raising.

Inquisitive One Wrote:
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> The thing is I do not know if it is incompetence
> or a callous and calculating strategy but the
> school Board doesn't give a shit about teacher's
> pay or student-teacher ratios until they are
> looking for an increase in the transfer payment
> from the Board of Supervisors. Keys-Gamarra is on
> board with the current SB crew and wants to focus
> on bullying, of all things. If a teacher and
> current administration is not controlling and/or
> disciplining for bullying they are not doing their
> job and should be looking for employment
> elsewhere. But that is just me...


Hey asshole. Leave the driving to us okay? Just shut the fuck up and pay your taxes on time.

School board member Wrote:
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> Inquisitive One Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The thing is I do not know if it is
> incompetence
> > or a callous and calculating strategy but the
> > school Board doesn't give a shit about
> teacher's
> > pay or student-teacher ratios until they are
> > looking for an increase in the transfer payment
> > from the Board of Supervisors. Keys-Gamarra is
> on
> > board with the current SB crew and wants to
> focus
> > on bullying, of all things. If a teacher and
> > current administration is not controlling
> and/or
> > disciplining for bullying they are not doing
> their
> > job and should be looking for employment
> > elsewhere. But that is just me...
>
>
> Hey asshole. Leave the driving to us okay? Just
> shut the fuck up and pay your taxes on time.

The school board has been piloting that fucking sinking ship and they have run it aground in the process. That is the reason that the teachers are still waiting for a pay raise that never came. They just cannot resist their pet projects which makes them focus on everything but what is taking place in the classroom.

Inquisitive One Wrote:
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> It means;
>
> 1) The Fairfax County School Board (FCSB) supports
> local revenue flexibility to accommodate various
> economic and demographic conditions and assist
> local governments in creating systems of taxation
> that are sensible, fair, stable, and reflect local
> priorities. This would include expanding local
> taxing authority and the flexibility over the use
> of generated revenue available to the
> Commonwealth’s 95 counties to match authority
> already available to its 39 cities, as well as
> referendum authority to raise local sales taxes
> with revenues dedicated to school facilities.
>
> 2) The FCSB supports addressing the issue of
> collecting state sales tax on internet purchases.
>
> 3) The FCSB supports local school board
> flexibility to charge appropriate fees for
> programs and activities that are not directly
> related to core educational programs.
>
> 4) The FCSB supports fiscal autonomy for locally
> elected local school boards.
>
> In other words, they want the ability to levy
> local sales taxes, levy sales taxes on your Amazon
> internet purchases, assess a meals tax without
> getting the electorate's approval through the use
> of a referendum and the ability to tell the Board
> of Supervisors to go screw themselves on budgetary
> matters. Specifically, this means that they would
> establish their budget, raise taxes as much as
> what they wish and approve it without consultation
> with the Board of Supervisors and accountable to
> NOBODY!!!

This is worthy of being recycled because this is what Karen Keys-Gamarra will be shooting for if elected to the School Board next Tuesday! Vote for Chris Grisafe!

I think that I found at least a part of what had Keys-Gamarra's panties all in a bunch. Listen.... it is interesting!

http://www.wmal.com/2017/08/22/listen-fairfax-county-school-board-at-large-candidate-chris-grisafe-on-his-plans-for-the-school-district/

won't be voting for key-gamarra

Karen's message on class size is not consistent to say the least. This petition was sent to me by a friend:

https://www.change.org/p/a-special-election-will-occur-on-august-29-2017-for-the-vacant-at-large-seat-go-to-www-classsize-counts-com-home-page-for-the-links-to-see-how-each-of-the-4-candidates-would-address-11-critical-class-size-issues/u/21169846

I followed the link to http://classsizecounts.com/?page_id=26 Look how she responded to Class Size Counts group and then see how she responded to the press!!!