Hot lane cases with mass refunds. Peggy fox is live at the Fairfax County courthouse where a contentious hearing took place today. Weve talked to many people who say they had working easy passes and still face thousands of dollars in fines. We met a maryland man today who said he did nothing wrong and had a working easy pass but faced 26,000 in fines. Today he paid a 500 settlement to make it all go away. They get you and keep pushing you. They have the money and the lawyers to do it. You dont. Youve got work to do. Reporter George Mcdonagh has had an easy pass for six years. He said it worked everywhere except on the express lane. In july of 2013, he was sent an email that he owed 58 in toll violations. He didnt believe it and asked for proof. After talking to a guy named david on there he said fax your easy pass statement to me seeing youve been good the whole time and youre not in the rears or anything. Then mail with your statement and well see what we can do. I did that. And basic
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Outgoing School Board rep Julie Wade: Lessons I learned in good governance
Local elected bodies should constantly strive to improve their governance structure to improve the lives of those they serve
Julie Wade
This is an op-ed from outgoing Savannah-Chatham County School Board District 1 Representative Julie Wade. She has spend 10 years on the board and did not seek re-election earlier this year. Her term expires Jan. 1, 2021.
Public service is an American institution and hallmark of democracy, where normal citizens can serve their community through local elected office. I was relatively new to Savannah, a lawyer and mom of three young children, when I signed up to run for the Board of Education for Savannah Chatham Public Schools. Now those young children are tweens and teens, and I am ending 10 years of service to our community and our public school system.
Black and Hispanic students, English-language learning students, and students with disabilities are experiencing the deepest drops.
“We knew that we might see some degradation in scores, and this is helpful to understand exactly where we are seeing some deep drops,” School Board Chair Monique O’Grady said during the School Board meeting on Thursday night.
The new report builds on data released earlier this month, and follows on requests from School Board members for more precise data the impact distance learning is having on different groups of students. Fairfax County Public Schools released a similar report last month.
Overall, Es failing grades account for 2.1% of all middle school grades this year, up from 0.7% last year. This year, 5.4% of high school grades are Es, up from 4.3% last year.
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