Marsden Statement on Proposed Cuts to Fairfax County Schools

"Let this be a wake-up call to anyone who thinks Fairfax County Schools are safe from harm"

Jan 8, 2010

Mark Henson

(BURKE, VA) In response to massive cuts to Fairfax County schools proposed yesterday, Dave Marsden, candidate for Virginia Senate, made the following statement:

"We need to send someone to Richmond with the right judgment and priorities. Last year as a House Delegate, we made the tough decisions on how to make two billion dollars of budget cuts as responsibly as possible while protecting education funding, while the Republicans were aggressively pushing half a billion dollars in education cuts. Make no mistake, Steve Hunt will be on the wrong side of this issue and will join with Republicans in Richmond who want to take a meat cleaver to our education budget - cuts that will make the current proposed cuts to Fairfax County schools look like child's play. Let this be a wake-up call to anyone who thinks that Fairfax County schools are safe from harm - who we send to represent us in the Senate matters tremendously."

In endorsing Dave Marsden, Fairfax County School Board Chair Kathy Smith (Sully District) said:

"When our schools are facing such devastating cuts, we need somebody with experience - experience in education and experience in cutting budgets responsibly to protect the things that are important, like Fairfax County's world-class schools. Today's challenges demand someone like Dave Marsden because he is an effective fighter for Fairfax County, not someone who seems to be surrounded by controversy. I am endorsing Dave Marsden because I know he will be that fighter for us."