Fully Fund the FCPS Budget

Fairfax County Executive and Board of Supervisors

No doubt you have spent the last several months hearing about our current FCPS budget woes. NOW is the time continue to take action to avoid increasing class sizes, less educational options for our students, and another year of stagnant salaries. We cannot continue to let FCPS go downhill. There are no more “good cuts” to make. 

Please sign this petition asking the Board of Supervisors and County Executive to set an advertised tax rate which allows for the possibility to fully funding the School Board's proposed budget.  

Also, please take a moment to share a quick story in the provided box about how additional cuts to FCPS would impact your students or how past cuts have already impacted your students. 

Thank you for standing up for our kids!

Sincerely, 

Your Fairfax Education Association

To: Fairfax County Executive and Board of Supervisors
From: [Your Name]

This is the year to turn the tide.

For nearly the last decade FCPS has weathered difficult economic times by trying to do more with less. We agree with what seems to have become this year's mantra: "We cannot cut our way to excellence."

The Board of Supervisors has the power to fix this situation. We ask that you give yourselves the flexibility to fully fund Dr. Garza’s no-cuts budget by announcing an adequate advertised tax rate. There are no more cuts that FCPS can make without sacrificing some part of our children’s education and their future.

Until the most recent decade our community found the wherewithal to properly prioritize our schools. This string of cuts and inadequate funding must not become the new normal. Our schools are an integral part of our community. Whether or not Fairfax residents have children, we recognize that a world class school district is essential to our business community, to our property values, and to our future.

The time for excuses is over. The time to properly fund education in Fairfax is now.