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FY 2005 Budget

An increase in county revenue and state aid has enabled the Fairfax County School Board to adopt a FY 2005 budget that reduces elementary and middle school class size, expands the number of schools offering full-day kindergarten, and enables the Applied Behavior Analysis/Verbal Behavior (ABA/VB) program to be implemented for students with autism. The School Board approved the budget at its business meeting on June 10.

The FY 2005 budget includes a county transfer of 6.57 percent, or $1.32 billion, which is $38.8 million less than the School Board’s original request. State aid increased, however, by $28.4 million over the amount projected in the original budget, enabling the School Board to reexamine areas that have been underfunded because of budget cuts in the past several years. Throughout the budget process the Board worked to apply any additional funding to nonrecurring costs.

More details are available in a press release issued June 11.

Budget Documents:

• Complete FY 2005 Advertised Budget and other proposed and advertised budget documents back to FY 2001
• Interim Superintendent Brad Draeger presented recommendations (PDF document) to the School Board at its May 20 meeting on funding priorities that address the academic and operational issues confronting the school division. These recommendations are contingent on the Board of Supervisors adopting its budget as presented and final funding accounting from Richmond. The goal is to apply funding resources—as much as possible—directly at the school and classroom level, where they are most needed.
• A complete list of schools proposed to offer full day kindergarten programs in 2004-05 has been posted.
• Board Chair Kathy Smith, presented the school division's budget request to Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on March 31, 2004. The text of her speech and supporting slides (PDF document) are available.
• Board chair Kathy Smith made comments at the Governor’s Press Conference concerning the budget impasse in the Virginia General Assembly, Monday, March 22, 2004, in Alexandria, Virginia.
• The Fairfax County School Board has issued a more detailed open letter (PDF document) to the legislators. (3/18/04)
• The Fairfax County School Board is gravely concerned that the General Assembly has failed to agree to a state budget for the 2004-06 biennium. Because localities and local school boards do not yet know whether the state will provide its share of public K-12 funding or how much of its required share will be appropriated, the quality of our instructional programs, our teaching staffs, and other school services are threatened. Read the open letter to the Governor and Legislators dated March 18, 2004.
• FY2005 Advertised Budget (PDF document) (3/4/04)
• Presentation (PDF document) to the Joint Work Session of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and the Fairfax County School Board, 3/1/04
• Highlights of the Superintendent's FY 2005 Proposed Budget (PDF document)
• Holding the Line, Superintendent's Proposed FY2005 Budget Presentation (PDF document) (1/8/04)
• Superintendent's FY 2005 Proposed Budget, the complete proposed budget document
• Washington Area Boards of Education (WABE) Guide compares school districts in the Washington, D.C. area.
  

Press Releases:

• Fairfax County School Board Adopts FY 2005 Budget, Reduces Class Size, Expands Full-Day Kindergarten (6/11/04)
• Draeger Announces Potential Cuts To FY 2005 Budget In Response To State Budget Impasse (4/22/04)
• Fairfax County Announces Change to Budget Public Hearing Time (3/19/04)
• Fairfax County School Board To Present Budget To Fairfax County Board Of Supervisors On March 31, 2/20/04
• Fairfax County School Board Reschedules Public Hearing,1/28/04
• FCPS Superintendent Presents $1.8 Billion Proposed Budget for FY 2005,1/8/04
  

Budget Updates:

• March 26, 2004 (PDF document)
• March 19, 2004 (PDF document)
• March 12, 2004 (PDF document)
• March 5, 2004 (PDF document)
• February 27, 2004 (PDF document)
• February 20, 2004 (PDF document)
• February 13, 2004 (PDF document)
• February 6, 2004 (PDF document)
• January 30, 2004 (PDF document)
• January 23, 2004 (PDF document)
• January 16, 2004 (PDF document)

FY 2005 Budget Calendar
all dates subject to change