SPEAK OUT: Is FCCPS Asking for Too Much from the City?

Phyllis Kravinsky doesn’t believe the Falls Church City Public Schools Board is asking for to much in its proposed $41.4 million 2014 budget.

Kravinsky, a teacher at Mount Daniel Elementary School in the city and the mother of two George Mason High students, believes the money is necessary to continue teaching the expanding student enrollment. At Monday’s City Council meeting, she said it’s her job to give students the quality education that her own children received.

“I truly believe the budget the school board has presented represents the enrollment growth,” she said to council.

The school board has proposed the $43.6 million budget with a $33.6 million transfer from the city for the coming fiscal year. For FY13, FCCPS received a $29.9 million transfer from the city. In March, Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields proposed a $74.9 million FY14 budget for the city that would see FCCPS receive 45 percent of the proposed budget.

With enrollment increasing in all four FCCPS schools, do you think the school board’s proposed budget is asking for too much from the city?

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