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FCPS Plans to Install Synthetic Fields at Eight More County Schools

Even more Fairfax County Schools may be getting synthetic turf fields.

The Fairfax County School Board voted on funding the project in a meeting last week. It will cost $1.5 million to install the fields. The funding is contingent on the Board of Supervisors approval in September. 

The other schools that would be getting the synthetic fields are Thomas A, Edison High School, Mount Vernon High School, South County Secondary School, J.E.B. Stuart High School, West Potomac High School, Annandale High School, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and Hayfield Secondary School.

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A statement released by the school system stated that the installation of the synthetic fields will allow the fields to be used more often, including during and after some inclement weather.

The installation of synthetic turf at these remaining eight high schools will alleviate turf field access inequities and provide parity across FCPS,” the release states.

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A law that would have required all Prince George’s County Public High Schools to install synthetic fields proposed earlier this year stalled in Maryland’s House of Delegates.   

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