Mrs. Caddigan gets it! BOCS–Listen to the lady!

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Mrs. Caddigan restates the obvious–too much building and not enough of a commerical base. If she could only arm-twist the rest of the guys to stop rubber-stamping the development. “Slow down the construction of the new homes and concentrate on the commericial” is more than fair….

Growth exceeds the rate of revenues. That’s the way it has always been.

The BOCS needs to slow the growth. Good for Pete Candland for echoing  her remarks….before he went off the deep end on zero base budget approach.

For the record, Prince William County, at least in modern times, has never required teachers to buy their own supplies.  Most of them do buy things they want for their own instructional purposes, but they don’t have to.  Many years ago, a secretary at a mid county elementary school used to hand out one strip of staples at a time, or so I have been told.    Perhaps in that case…..

 

PWBOCS: Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!

Even though Easter has past, I still hear the echoes of Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! resonating across Prince William County.  No, that isn’t the sound of baby chicks.  It’s the sound made by the Board of County Supervisors.

Note a few facts:

Per Classroom indicators show that Prince William County has the highest teacher:student ratio in the DC metro area:

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Upon further inspection, we see that Prince William county also spends very little per student compared to many of its neighboring jurisdictions.

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