Top Priorities

1. Student Outcomes First, Not Bureaucracy, Not Excuses

• If students are not learning, nothing else matters.

  • Under Virginia’s new accountability system, 1 in 4 FCPS schools are rated Off Track or Needs Intensive Support.

  • If your child is in FCPS, they are 25 percent more likely to attend a struggling school than a child in Loudoun County.

  • In the Braddock District:

  • Off Track: Annandale Terrace ES, Key MS, Poe MS

  • Needs Intensive Support: Braddock ES, Lynbrook ES

  • At Braddock ES, Annandale Terrace ES, and Lynbrook ES, not a single demographic group is meeting federal academic standards.

  • FCPS responds by blaming family environments, which insults parents who are doing everything they can.

2. Fiscal Accountability, Stop Writing Blank Checks

• Spending should be measured by results in classrooms, not press releases.

  • FCPS spending has increased by over 1 billion dollars in six years even as enrollment keeps falling.

  • Across the board raises for administrators who do not teach in classrooms.

  • Millions spent on electric buses that cannot operate in cold weather or on field trips.

  • In November 2025, FCPS paid a single law firm 1.7 million dollars, 2.68 million dollars so far this fiscal year, under a contract allowing rates up to 1,850 dollars per hour.

  • That is money not going to literacy, tutoring, or classroom support.

3. Real Oversight, End One Party Rule

• You do not build more schools when you are losing students and you do not get accountability when everyone thinks the same.

• FCPS is losing an elementary school’s worth of students every year.

• Yet the board is pushing ahead with a new Dunn Loring elementary school even though:

  • Costs have ballooned

  • The need no longer exists

  • It is happening because the Blake Lane site was given away for political reasons

• All 12 school board members and the superintendent come from the same political machine and so do my opponents.

• FCPS brags about accreditation but that system measures paperwork compliance, not learning.

4. Parental Rights & Student Privacy First, Protect Funding

• Parents deserve transparency, consent, and common sense.

• Under current FCPS policy, students may receive privacy-related accommodations based on a student’s self-reported identity.

• Those accommodations can include bathroom access, locker rooms, and overnight field trips and in some cases are made without parental notification or consent.

• This framework creates broad discretion and leaves room for inconsistent application and abuse.

• Many parents have no idea this is happening.

• Legal experts have warned that these policies could jeopardize federal funding if they are found to violate Title IX requirements.

• Read the official FCPS regulation here.

• Student Athletics:

  • I support the Virginia High School League policy on boys’ and girls’ sports.

  • In practice, that means: only biological girls (assigned female at birth) are eligible for girls’ high school sports teams under the current VHSL policy.

  • Read for yourself here: VHSL 2025–26 Handbook under “Participation Limitation/Boys Participation on Girls Teams.