Middleburg council urges parents to contact school board after LCPS staff proposes removing charter schools from CIP

Council members told parents and other residents on Monday that Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) staff is proposing to remove charter schools from the district's Capital Improvement Program (CIP), and urged community members to contact their school-board representatives ahead of a scheduled vote Tuesday.

A council member (role: mayor or presiding member per the transcript) said the LCPS proposal would stop including charter-school building-maintenance needs—things like major roof or HVAC work—in the five- or six-year CIP planning. The councilor said the change appears targeted at the county’s two charter schools and said the move could create health and safety risks if necessary maintenance is not funded.

The councilor told those in the audience the council would vote later that evening on a letter to the full school board opposing the change and encouraged parents and residents to attend the school board public hearing or contact their board members directly. The speaker identified the Little River district school-board member as Dr. Samara Rasheed and named the board chair as Mansfield (first name not provided in the transcript). The councilor said the county school-board budget is large and that Middleburg has received little CIP spending in recent years.

The council did not record a formal vote on the letter in the portion of the transcript provided; the councilor said staff would circulate an edited version incorporating suggested edits from local education leaders and would send it to school-board members. Council members and staff said they would follow up with the community about how to engage with the school-board process.