费郡（Fairfax）校董候选人Ryan答问录节选
摘要: 1. 2014年全美第11大学区，家庭收入全美第五（福布斯排名）的县，现在穷得连学校打印纸都要家长捐款，还要再加税，再举债。您认为School Board有责任吗？The school board does not determine how much funding we r ...
The school board does not determine how much funding we receive. Annually we make a budget request to the Board of Supervisors, who have not provided us with enough funding to keep pace with system growth. As school board members, it is our job to advocate for the needs of the system, and we have done so to no avail. That is why we are looking at legal options to obtain the "adequate education funding" guaranteed by the state constitution. 2. 难道涨了税就不会下一次shortage？那下次再涨税？3. Is there any data as how many male transgenders v.s. how many female transgenders in fcps? There is no data on the number of transgender students in FCPS, although we estimate that there are around 10 per high school, which would mean around 300 systemwide. 4. 谢谢！我还想问Ryan他主管的几个committee在过去四年的工作 把大家关心的提一下 . I have served as state legislative liaison for several years, the Chairman of the CPDC (Comprehensive Planning and Development Committee) and currently serve as chairman of the PEC (Public Engagement Committee). My work as state legislative liaison has taken most of my time, as it requires lobbying our state legislators in Richmond. As liaison, I made our legislative program easier to read and created the "school board advocacy priorities" for each legislative session. These have included increasing state funding for education, stopping unfunded mandates by the state, pushing for testing reform, etc. As for public engagement, the first thing I did when I got on the board was to push through the creation of "video testimonies," which community members can submit for showing at our meetings. We became the first board in the U.S. to offer this feedback mechanism. We have done many other things, but these are some highlights. 5. If Ryan as school board member holds a strategy to allow students to use the restrooms of opposite sex in order to avoid lawsuits. Federal law requires that transgender students have the option to use the restroom of the sex with which they identify. If we do otherwise, we are susceptible to lawsuits from the federal government or families of transgender students. 6. I wonder how often the board assesses all the projects, whether the benefit a project brings is proportional to its cost, I personally think the elementary school language immersion program is not a wise use of money. We have a program budget, which is developed every two years and accessible on our website and shows the cost of each program. We have a program evaluation department and have just finished the revamping of our internal audit office, which now has a program auditing function. School board members and the community can submit ideas of programs to evaluate as part of our annual audit plan. For example, we just finished an audit of our reading programs. I am a strong supporter of world language instruction and language immersion. I believe the immersion program is a better model than FLES, which only gives elementary students an hour of world language instruction per week. For this reason, we are currently restructuring FLES to become a "language through content" program, which will allow us to enhance base curriculum instruction in a foreign language. |
