■ Jan 4 General Assy hearing at Gov't Center
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FCTA Testimonies -- The Fx Co delegation
to the Va General Assy held its annual pre-session public hearing at the
Gov't Center on Saturday, Jan 4, 2025. FCTA was there.
FCPS ClgBd: FCPS College Board Reports for 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 ... Note: FCTA had to FOIA these reports and provide hosting, as FCPS does not post them on its web site.
■ FCTA provides full text of
Classics in Western Literature
... The Great Books provide valuable lessons in life, but unfortunately
are not emphasized these days. Here are 80+ local HTML copies of books
that every educated person should make an effort to read and be able to
discuss intelligently.
Recent Posts: Local, Virginia, and Perspective FCTA Wonders:
(1) Is it worse to not learn because gov't schools are closed, or to not learn reading, math, and 1776 history when gov't schools are open? (2) Will Va. adopt destructive and expensive green energy policies like California? (3) Can U.S. citizens' trust be restored in government, corporate, and educational institutions? (4) Will the U.S. return to equal justice under the law?
2025-03-27 (Nat) FCTA: The Left's Indoctrination Conundrum, by David Swink Big Media, the Democrat Party, and the Education Blob have work to do. They've dug themselves into a massive hole. Will they get out now or continue digging?
2025-03-27 (Tax) FCTA: Fairfax County Notice of Proposed Real Property Tax Increase Public posting, one half of page A7 in the Washington Times. Includes an average increase of 6.17 percent for residential and a decrease of 0.38 percent for non-residential real estate. Public hearing April 22, 2025 at the Gov't Center.
2025-03-24 (Nat) Axios: Top Democrats ponder party's dark, deep hole, by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years. But they carefully avoid admitting that after 16 years of wokeness (aka Obama-style Fascism), voters have plainly said NO MORE.
2025-03-16 (Sch) Daily Signal: Shocking Transgender Agenda at West Springfield HS Leftist educators at West Springfield HS in Fairfax County are using your tax dollars to push their abortion agenda, celebrate Democrat politicians, and force transgender ideology on impressionable teenagers.
2025-03-06 (Nat) AMAC: A Reckoning for Teachers Unions, by Frederick M. Hess During the pandemic, America's schools failed our students and families. Pandemic-era schooling was a study in putting self-serving adult interests first and the needs of students second. The political forces upending education today are a direct consequence of that ugly, instructive experience.
2025-03-05 (Nat) EdChoice: The EdChoice 2025 Friedman Index, by Ben Scafidi and Colyn Ritter This index measures how well each state enables families to direct education funding toward the best options for their children, whether public or private. (Virginia ranks dead last.)
2025-02-21 (Tax) Fx Times: Fairfax County needs FOGE -- letter, by Garry A. Scutt "With all the recent deficit talk from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, I am wondering if now would be a great time to implement a FOGE (Fairfax Office of Government Efficiency) right here. ... There is no excuse in my mind that the only resolution for millions of dollars being overspent or wasted is to impose tax increases year after year after year."
2025-01-21 (Sch) Fx Times: Opinions not welcome at Fx Co School Board -- letter The School Board distributed a survey/questionnaire about teaching sex education in elementary schools. The Board always claims they want feedback, and they got it: 85% of the respondents said, "No, not a good idea." A second survey got similar results. Ignoring the surveys, they moved forward with mixed-sex-ed classes in fifth grade rather than fourth.
2025-01-13 (Wrd) UnHerd.com: Why Europe fears free speech, by Wolfgang Munchau We all know the old joke: when a European referendum delivers the "wrong" outcome, the country votes again until they get it "right". The EU thought this would be the case after Brexit. But so far, no one's laughing. Just like in America, the elites fear the people.
2025-01-10 (SVa) Fx Times: Citizens raise concerns to county’s General Assembly delegation This past weekend, about 80 residents including FCTA president Arthur Purves streamed into the Board Auditorium of the Fairfax County Government Center to voice their concerns to the Fairfax County delegation to the General Assembly, days before the start of the 2025 legislative session.
2025-01-07 (Nat) Brownstone: The Cost of Facebook's Now-Repudiated Censorship, by Jeffrey Tucker While tech platforms maintained the facade of private enterprise, their synchronized actions with government agencies revealed a more troubling reality: the emergence of exactly the kind of state-corporate fusion (aka: Fascism) they were trying to prevent us from discussing.
