CONCERNED PARENTS engaged State Sen. Dave Marsden following today’s town hall meeting at the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School. (Photo: News-Press)
At this morning’s state legislative town hall meeting at the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School, parents of students at Falls Church High School (FCHS) who’ve organized themselves into a group called “Uproar” were told by State Sen. Dick Saslaw that under current law, the decision on sanctioning a charter school remains in the hands of localities and that changing that would require a change in the state constitution. On the other hand, State Del. Kaye Kory, a former member of the Fairfax County School Board, was not so sure, noting that the Republican-controlled state legislature “is passing a lot of unconstitutional stuff these days.”