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	<description>Are you concerend about your child's education in Prince William County?</description>
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		<title>School Board Unaware of Plans to Build Pools in 13th and 14th High Schools</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/school-board-unaware-of-plans-to-build-pools-in-13th-and-14th-high-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[PWC School Board Report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted an article claiming that the school division intended to build pools in the next 3 high schools it builds.  The article, 6 pools in 3 schools, generated some degree of controversy. Two school board members, Mr Trenum and Chairman Johns, addressed the allegations from that article in their board comments last night. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4229&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six Pools in Three Schools * UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/six-pools-in-three-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWC School Board Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWCS Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12th high school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12thhigh school pool]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[school pool]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/?p=4215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I addressed the PWC School Board about their plans to build a pool in the 12th high school.  I asked how the annual cost of the pool could be justified when our classes are jammed to the gills, our schools are overcrowded, and our teachers are underpaid.  Over the past several months [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4215&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Opting Out of SOL Exams in Virginia</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/more-on-opting-out-of-sol-exams-in-virginia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opting Out of State Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents refusing to allow their children to be tested on state exams has been a hot topic of late across the nation.  The Washington Post recently ran several stories about the issue focusing on the statutes in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC.  One article stated that Students in the DC area can&#8217;t opt out state [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4212&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closed Versus Open Meetings</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/closed-versus-open-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWC School Board Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Closed Meeting Certificate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past year I&#8217;ve been providing reports on what is discussed at school board meetings. At the start of each meeting the school board certifies in open session that nothing was discussed in closed session that ought to have been discussed in public session.  Several people have asked about this recently, so I wanted [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4206&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Board Report &#8211; May 1, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Board Report for May 1, 2013. UPDATE: Please be advised that comments are not verbatim. All members were present. Consent Agenda All items on the consent agenda were approved unanimously. The items on the agenda include the following: Annual Local Plan for Career and Technical Education as required Carl D Perkins CTE Act of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4196&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Board Report &#8211; April 17, 2013</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/school-board-report-april-17-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PWC School Board Report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[School Board Report for April 17, 2013. Ms Jessie (Occoquan District) and Dr Otiaigbe (Coles District) were absent. All other members were present. Consent Agenda Mr Trenum &#8211; Want to comment about Bill Teel.  He passed away in 2012 and it is appropriate that this field be named after him. He spent years at Brentsville [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4189&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is PWCS Inflating Construction Costs?</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/is-pwcs-inflating-construction-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 18:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWCS Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWC Debt Ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWCS 12th high school]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/?p=4181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Loudoun County awarded a bid to build their next high school for $64 million. Stafford County awarded a bid to build their next high school for $59 million.  PWCS projects that it will  cost $100 million, excluding the pool, to build their next high school.  The schools will house approximately the same number of students [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4181&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Board Report &#8211; April 3, 2013</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/school-board-report-april-3-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/school-board-report-april-3-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pwceducationreform</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PWC School Board Report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[School Board Report for April 3, 2013. All members were present. Consent Agenda All items on the consent agenda were approved unanimously. The items on the agenda include the following: Local Special Education Action Plan FY 2013 State Technology Grant 0 Intent to Reimburse Renewal and Addition &#8211; Dumfries Elementary School Special Warrant for School [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4175&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Being Ripped Off?</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/are-we-being-ripped-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[PWCS Budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/?p=4171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of July 1, 2012, PWCS had almost $760 million in bonds outstanding.  To date I have never seen anything that accounts for what those bonds are used for.  I&#8217;ve been trying to track the bonds PWCS has &#8220;issued&#8221; in the past two years, and I can&#8217;t find about $20 million.  I have no clue [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4171&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Class Sizes, Slogans, and Leadership</title>
		<link>http://pwceducationreform.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/class-sizes-slogans-and-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Class Sizes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcroded classrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcrowded schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWCS Class Sizes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As this budget season comes to a close, one unfinished issue stands high above the rest &#8211; too large classes in Prince William County Schools. Over the past several years, as the economy crashed and has struggled to come back to life, PWCS has slowly been increasing class sizes to save money.  Last year class [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwceducationreform.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5763624&#038;post=4168&#038;subd=pwceducationreform&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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