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When it comes to the boundary issue...
Vote Laura Ramirez Drain for Hunter Mill
Voices of Fairfax undertook an endorsement process because community members repeatedly asked who, based upon our research, would best represent their concerns.  This has been a time-consuming process, full of intense and respectful debate with input from residents throughout Fairfax County.  We appreciate the time candidates provided in responding to our questionnaire, meeting with us, participating in debates, and making themselves available at community events.  We encourage you to exercise your VOICE at the ballot box, and we look forward to working with the new School Board.
Laura is an engineer, small business entrepreneur, immigrant from Mexico, and a parent of two sons who attended FCPS schools. She wants to unify parents, teachers and the community to help students.
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✓   Against proposed boundary policy 8130.8
The proposed policy 8130.8 was almost voted in by the current school board without input from the community, and would have given the board power to move more children without public engagement and rezone students based on their socio-economic and/or racial characteristics.


Laura has publicly and frequently spoken out against draft 8130.8.  In Laura’s response to our questionnaire she wrote, “As a naturalized citizen from Mexico, I am highly in favor of equity for all people. I am not in favor of making huge changes to the schools that students now attend, busing students to a different neighborhood and separating students from the community of students and families that have supported them throughout their education.”
​✓   Supports keeping families in their neighborhood school of choice
The current school board majority is interested in potentially rezoning your neighborhood out of your school of choice, ignoring the impact on your community and property values, in order to distribute the demographics across the county. The current board wanted to remove from the considerations for a boundary change the impact on neighborhoods and overall impact on families and students among other concerning changes.

Laura’s has stated that she is a strong supporter of neighborhood schools and is against any boundary changes that does not consider the perspective of the local community.  She believes that schools serve the community and the needs of the local community must be paramount.  Parents have told her that they team up with their children’s classmates to create a support system for themselves and their children, helping one another with babysitting while another one works, etc.  This support system could be stripped away by needless boundary changes. This is wrong.   
✓   Offers solutions to overcrowding
She proposes open enrollment as a solution for schools with significant over capacity.  She believes in offering parents choices rather than imposing solutions on them. She has serious concerns for the safety of 22,000 students learning in trailers and recommends adding school resource officers at schools with multiple trainers.  She wants the parents, teachers and school administrators to participate in creating long-term solutions for overcrowding.
​✓   ​Advocates for active, ongoing community input
Laura’s entire focus is on community. Her website states that she, “will ensure more parental involvement in education rather than more government. The current school board keeps parents in the dark. Parents must be valued and respected as the primary educators of their own children. All children deserve their parents' voices in the formation of their education and, if necessary, parental representation and due-process in any discipline process.
​✓   Laura is an experienced, professional business woman
Laura was educated as an engineer with a master’s degree in Telecommunications and Marketing. She started her engineering career for the Hewlett-Packard corporation. Laura has more than 20 years of successful sales experience with information technology products and solution-based services. She’s worked for such Fortune 500 companies as Verizon, AT&T and Hewlett-Packard. She currently leads the Random Words Marketing Group as CEO of that organization.