FLECAC: Good News, For Now
Fairfax Schools Monitor has learned through the Superintendent’s office that no changes will be made in the current fiscal year to the sex education curriculum in FCPS. This is good news, as most revisions in recent years have exposed young children to controversial concepts, including transgender ideology, that should not be taught in elementary grades. …
Read MoreFCPS Case Study in Hiding the Ball
FCPS can make life difficult for those seeking transparency, as this story illustrates. The facts will eventually emerge, although at significant cost, time and effort. Back in February, the School Board decided to allow each of its members to hire additional staffers for themselves. Perhaps they truly needed more help. The problem, though, is that…
Read MoreFCPS v. Department of Education: Who Will Win?
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) filed suit last Friday in the federal district court in Alexandria to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) from restricting federal funding for its schools. DOE had determined that the transgender policies of FCPS and four other Northern Virginia school districts violate Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments…
Read MoreFCPS Renews “Pilot Program” Putting Boys and Girls in Combined Sex-Ed Classes
Sex education instruction has traditionally been taught to elementary- and middle-schoolers in separate classes for boys and girls, but in the recently completed academic year FCPS implemented a controversial “pilot program” combining the two sexes. Fairfax Schools Monitor has learned that this program has been renewed for the 2025-26 academic year. Background of the Controversy…
Read MoreFCPS Plans to Spend Tax $$$ Defending Its Discrimination Against Girls.
On July 25, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concluded a five-month investigation into the transgender policies of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) and four other Northern Virginia school districts (Alexandria, Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William). It announced that all five jurisdictions are violating Title IX of the Education Amendments of…
Read MoreFairfax School Board Members Vote in Unlawful Secret Meeting to Benefit Themselves
The Fairfax County School Board never ceases to amaze. A body that’s supposed to be transparent is anything but. A vivid example occurred earlier this year when the Board held a secret session to authorize expenditures that personally benefitted its members and that would have been very controversial if known to the public. A May…
Read MoreThe Anti-Public Reality About FLECAC’s “Reform” Is Revealed
The Fairfax County School Board, at its March 13, 2025 meeting, surprised the community by terminating the controversial Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) as a School Board advisory group. The move seemingly came out of nowhere. There was no prior public notice of it and hardly any discussion of it at the meeting. …
Read MoreWhat Constitutes “Critical Thinking” in FCPS?
Should our schools teach “critical thinking”? Of course, you might say. But what is “critical thinking”? As commonly understood, critical thinking means the ability to make rational decisions by taking into account all relevant facts and perspectives, and by analyzing those facts and perspectives objectively, filtering out biases, fallacies and unwarranted assumptions. Is this what…
Read MoreChairman of FCPS Budget Committee Charged with Embezzlement
Kyle McDaniel, who heads the Fairfax County School Board’s budget committee, has been charged with embezzlement by a company he was affiliated with until two months ago. A Complaint filed in Loudoun County Circuit Court alleges that McDaniel spent about $160,000 in company funds for personal uses, including family vacations, meals, household expenses, entertainment (including…
Read MoreFCPS Superintendent Endorses Biased Posters in High School
On Friday, March 21, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Michelle Reid, rendered her verdict on a set of controversial, politically-oriented posters that had recently been set up in the hallways of West Springfield High School. Her decision: The display is proper and commendable. The students and teachers who were involved, and the school…
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