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    Dr. Edgar Hatrick, Superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools, spoke at a Loudoun Chamber of Commerce event about the challenges of managing the school system as its CEO. He noted that LCPS has added over 36,000 students in the last 12 years requiring the opening of 38 new schools. Eric Hornberger, School Board Chairman, discussed four issues - budgets, boundaries, business and betterment - that the board focuses on, including setting attendance zones for two new elementary schools opening next year involving boundary changes for 13 existing schools. Hatrick said the operating budget has only increased 8.5% while enrollment grew 20%, reducing the cost per student, though teacher salaries have fallen behind others in the area during the high

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    Dr. Edgar Hatrick, Superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools, spoke at a Loudoun Chamber of Commerce event about the challenges of managing the school system as its CEO. He noted that LCPS has added over 36,000 students in the last 12 years requiring the opening of 38 new schools. Eric Hornberger, School Board Chairman, discussed four issues - budgets, boundaries, business and betterment - that the board focuses on, including setting attendance zones for two new elementary schools opening next year involving boundary changes for 13 existing schools. Hatrick said the operating budget has only increased 8.5% while enrollment grew 20%, reducing the cost per student, though teacher salaries have fallen behind others in the area during the high

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    Dr. Edgar Hatrick, Superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools, spoke at a Loudoun Chamber of Commerce event about the challenges of managing the school system as its CEO. He noted that LCPS has added over 36,000 students in the last 12 years requiring the opening of 38 new schools. Eric Hornberger, School Board Chairman, discussed four issues - budgets, boundaries, business and betterment - that the board focuses on, including setting attendance zones for two new elementary schools opening next year involving boundary changes for 13 existing schools. Hatrick said the operating budget has only increased 8.5% while enrollment grew 20%, reducing the cost per student, though teacher salaries have fallen behind others in the area during the high

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    Thursday,Sep.6,2012byLauraPeters,TimesMirrorStaffWriter|1comments|Emailthisstory

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    LoudounCountyPublicSchoolsSuperintendentDr.EdgarHatrickreferredtohimselfasthe schoolsystemsCEOduringaLoudounChamberofCommerceeventSept.6. Unlikeotherindustries,publicschoolsdontgettosetproductionquotas,Hatricksaid.Asa CEO,Ivehadtoadjusteachyeartoanincreasingnumberofstudentsandtheincreased diversitytheybringtoourschoolsystem. Theevent,whichbroughtseveralofLoudounsmajorbusinessesandschoolstogether,focused ontherealeconomicsofeducation,accordingtoHatricksspeech. Since2001,LCPShasopened38newschools22elementary,eightmiddleandeighthigh schools.AccordingtoHatrick,LCPShasaddedmorethan36,000studentsinthelast12years. LoudounCountySchoolBoardChairmanEricHornberger(Ashburn)spokeonthefourBs budgets,boundaries,businessandbettermentthatneedtobeaddressedwiththeschoolsystem andareintheboardsdirectviewofworkingtoward. Theschoolboardissetonsettingamorerigorousscheduleforthefallinordertosetnew attendancezonesforthetwoelementaryschoolsthataresettoopeninAshburnayearfrom now. Theprocess,Hornbergersaid,involvesatotalof13existingelementaryschoolsthathouse 10,000students. Justtoputthatincontextforyou,bycomparison,theprocesslastfallofestablishingan attendancezoneforthenewFrederickDouglassElementarySchoolinLeesburginvolvedonly nineexistingelementaryschoolsandlessthanhalfthenumberofstudents,Hornbergersaid. Hornbergeralsopointedoutthatthiscomingspring,theboardhastotakeupthesameprocess againfortheopeningofanewmiddleschoolandtwonewhighschools. Itismysincerehopethatgoingforward,theSchoolBoardwillmakebetteruseofitsexisting policyandestablishattendancezonesthatenablemorekidstoattendschoolsclosetohomeand withothersintheircommunitywheneverpossible,hesaid. Movingforwardwiththenextbudgetcycle,Hatricksaidtheoperatingbudgethasonly increased8.5percentversustheenrollmentgoingup20percent.Bythis,Hatrickpointedout, theaveragecostperpupilhasdropped9.3percentsince2009andisrankedoneofthelowestin theMetropolitanWashingtonarea. Asforteachersseeingraises,Hatricksaidwiththegrowththecountyhasseensincethe economicdeclineandtheconstantdemandfornewschools,itsbeenaroughtime. HatrickexplainedLCPStriedadoptingFairfaxCountyssalaryschedule. Wewentthroughaperiodoftimewhereweweretiredofbeingatraininggroundforteachers. Wevejustfallenbehind,Hatricksaid. ButwiththefourBsHornbergerpointedout,Hatrickreassuredissuesofmakingtheschool systemoperatesmoothlywillbeaddressedappropriately.
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