Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Fairfax County school board members will vote on five-year school building, renovation plan later this month.
Parents and students told the Fairfax County School Board on Monday night it worried the 2014-2018 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) wouldn't adequately address overcrowding in all places. Doing small boundary adjustments to overcrowded areas and then readjusting the plan's renovation queue, which calculates the order in which major school repairs will occur, might be a better, more efficient long-term strategy, they said. The five-year CIP budget will total $871.2 million or roughly $174.2 million per year. Funds approved in the 2011 School Bond Referendum and previous referenda will address approximately $190.8 million of the five-year requirement, leaving a balance of $680.3 million unfunded. Officials expect another school bond referendum…
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Capital Improvement Plan details overcrowding at Oakton Elementary, Oakton High.
Elementary schools and high schools serving the Oakton area are expected to see significant overcrowding in the next five years. A potential solution, according to the recently released draft of the Fairfax County Capital Improvement Plan: two new elementary schools in the Fairfax/Oakton/Route 28 area and a high school serving Oakton and southwestern Fairfax County to provide relief for Centreville, Chantilly, and South Lakes high schools, along with Oakton High. The five-year CIP budget will total $871.2 million or roughly $174.2 million per year. Funds approved in the 2011 School Bond Referendum and previous referenda will address approximately $190.8 million of the five-year requirement, leaving a balance of $680.3 million unfunded. …
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Fairfax County School Board disagrees on whether slight changes or drastic shift necessary for system's method
A review of how schools are ranked on Fairfax County Public Schools' building renovation queue will be done through a combination of community input and staff review rather than a task force or independent consultant, board members decided at a work session Monday. The board develops its Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) every five years, which includes new schools, renovations, capacity enhancements, additions and infrastructure management. Schools receive improvements in the order in which they're ranked on the system's renovation queue, driven by a list of weighted criteria ranging from how the buildings serve "Fundamental Educational Requirements (FER)," including whether they are under or over capacity, to their age and physical …
Genevieve Lindsay
7:40 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2013
I teach at Pinnacle Academy in Oakton. Our class sizes are small (I teach third grade and have 8 students) and we'd love to welcome new students.We are fortunate to rent space from Unity of Fairfax on Waples Mill Rd.Pinnacle focuses on math and science and provides a warm nurturing environment for everyone. more ›