Daniela Berson
WMAL.com
ALEXANDRIA — (WMAL) The Fairfax County School Board is considering cutting sports programs from public schools, but Board Member Elizabeth Schultz thinks there are plenty of ways to cut from the budget without harming extracurricular activities.
“Nothing can be a sacred cow. We’re 88 percent personnel,” Schultz said on WMAL Mornings on the Mall, “The question is, what are those personnel doing?”
Schultz’s statements follow a recommendation by a citizen committee that the school system eliminate school sports programs to save money on their budget.
She said that there needs to be increased communication between the Fairfax School Board and the Fairfax Board of Supervisors.
“That’s where the relationship needs to happen and that’s where the improvement needs to happen,” Schultz said.
“Not in stirring the pot around a 2.6 billion dollar budget and saying that what we’re going to put on the table are sports.”
Schultz said she thinks the local government need to “get their hands dirty” when looking at the budget instead of blindly signing whatever arrives on their desks.
However, that’s no easy task – the budget report itself is over 400 pages long.
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