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are the most repeated concerns among residents in her district. The School Board first scaled down the elementary foreign language program during the 2012 budget season and cut it all together two years later. “The need for that keeps coming up because of increasing diversity,” Maloney said. “Pretty soon, our students need to be able to survive in a global economy.” She doesn’t hear much about fiscal conContinued on Page 10
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the special prosecutor, Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan L. Porter, has said he won’t announce any decisions on the matter before Election Day. That probably doesn’t upset the Democratic nominee for sheriff. Brian P. Allman is not using the allegations against Chapman. In fact, he issued a statement saying he thinks his opponent did nothing wrong. Simpson, however, not only figures Chapman has done wrong with campaign finances, but also he finds fault with other aspects of the incumbent’s tenure. In an email Tuesday, he said he wants to Continued on Page 20
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The spooking has begun at Paxton Campus’ annual Shocktober. The attraction is open Fridays and Saturdays 7-10 p.m. and Sundays 7-9 p.m. through October. Get tickets at shocktober.org. Proceeds benefit the school’s programs. Ashburn Today/File Photo
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Most recently, news broke that a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate two complaints against Sheriff Mike Chapman. One of those originated with former Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson, whom Chapman unseated in 2011 and who is running as an independent against the Republican incumbent this year. Simpson says that Chapman failed to adequately identify donors in campaign finance disclosure filings. The second complaint came from Ron Speakman, who also ran for sheriff four years ago. He alleges that Chapman illegally obtained and published private emails between Eric Noble, then a Loudoun sheriff’s major, and Ricky Frye, a retired sheriff ’s major who was working as a contractor for Fairfax County. Chapman denied the allegations, and
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ll of Loudoun’s local elected positions, as well as the General Assembly districts that contain parts of the county, are on this November’s ballot, which means that the races for constitutional offices could draw considerably less attention than other contests. Not this year, though. Or, at least, not in the battle among those who want to be sheriff until Dec. 31, 2019. While the races for the other constitutional offices—clerk of the circuit court, commissioner of revenue, commonwealth’s attorney and treasurer—have been relatively quiet, the sheriff’s campaign has been anything but.
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his election cycle’s race for the Loudoun County School Board offers quite a contrast from four years ago. In the fall of 2011, the tune among challengers to the board’s incumbents was a need for fiscal belt-tightening and more transparency in how taxpayer money is spent. It appeared that was the priority of voters as well, when they backed newcomers for six of the board’s nine seats. But leading up to this year’s Election Day, most of the challengers are touting a message
that Loudoun County Public Schools’ operating budget has not kept pace with enrollment growth, leaving line items such as busing, foreign language and teachers’ training and pay underfunded. Several are campaigning on promises to restore some of those or add and expand programs—such as full-day kindergarten—that would likely bring additional costs to the division’s operating budget, which now sits at $982.12 million. Joy Maloney, who is challenging first-year incumbent Kevin Kuesters in the Broad Run District, said it’s the need to expand full-day kindergarten, smaller class sizes and foreign language programs in elementary schools that
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