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Joey Romeo
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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
This collection contains the records of the Fauquier County School Board compiled from the papers of Lawrence D. Czarda, a
member of the school board. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence, memorandums, reports, fiscal plans,
drafts, transparencies, and data charts and graphs.
The Fauquier County School Board's responsibilities dictated by the statutes of Virginia and the regulations of the Virginia
Board of Education are to operate the public schools of Fauquier County by providing them with policy for the day-to-day supervision
of schools, establishing goals and objectives for each aspect of the school system's operation based upon the identified needs
of the community, and to provide a framework of general rules and guidelines for school system administration affecting major
educational and financial issues of the Fauquier County School Division. The five School Board members are elected for four-year
terms; one member represents each of the county's five magisterial (election) districts.
This collection contains the records of the Fauquier County School Board compiled from the papers of Lawrence D. Czarda, a
member of the school board. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence, memorandums, reports, fiscal plans,
drafts, transparencies, and data charts and graphs. To a lesser extent, the collection also consists of agendas, proposals,
meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, bulletins, brochures, resolutions, maps, business cards, calendars, and
floppy disks. Subjects of interest include the history of Fauquier schools, membership and population projections, expenditures
and revenues, the middle school movement and the controversy of grade configurations in the schools, facility needs, Lord
Fairfax Community College-- Fauquier campus, and attracting businesses to the county. The collection is dated from 1986 to
1996 and consists of three boxes. It is arranged alphabetically by subject title.
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