Four or five years from now we'll be in the same position. The state board of accounts doesn't allow the 16 percent increase that you've budgeted in for 2010. |
I enjoy managing projects and funds and manipulating and analyzing data to help students and teachers do what they do better. |
I'd been helping her in the classrooms, over the years, and had a growing interest in teaching as a rewarding and enjoyable profession. |
It was great, ... Working with a group of administrators at London Towne — the principal and another assistant principal — as a team, was a fascinating experience. I enjoyed being an assistant principal because I could still be in the classroom and do activities with the kids. |
It's a great school, well organized, and it has good programs that I want to build on and keep going, |
My military background was in leadership roles, so it was a natural progression for me to move into administration, ... I felt I could do many of the same things I was doing, but on a schoolwide level. |
My wife had been teaching, on and off, since the early '70s and, when we moved here in 1983, she restarted her teaching career in Fairfax County, ... I got into Northern Virginia's Cultural Arts program, doing storytelling at school assemblies. |
The problem is you're asking the townships to come up with 20 to 30 percent more. The problem is we can't get 20 percent. We might be able to get 4 percent. When you change the rules, you price us out of the market. |
The question is if you really want to change the rules, you've got to give us time. Nobody is rejecting the idea that the city provides a valuable service. |
There needs to be more clarity. It's my understanding this is just a settlement, so therefore it doesn't change the laws or clarify any issues. |