Listing All Orange County Public School Board Correspondence History:
SELECT * FROM correspondence WHERE name_of_official LIKE '%OCPS%' ORDER BY date_sent DESC
Name of Official Subject of Letter Disposition of response Date Originator's Letter Sent Date Official's Response Received Originator's Comments
Sandy Harrington, OCPS School Board Please support Ms. Quintern's proposed changes to CODE JFCG Responded, but did not take a position.
On January 27, 2025 the majority school board voted in favor of this policy, Ms. Harrington voted against the policy. 		2025-01-16 2025-01-26 To view this letter and her response click here
Dr. Daniel Hornick, Superintendent OCPS 22Oct24 Superintendent's Budget Roundtable Feedback Acknowledged thanks for participation in event, but did not respond to suggestions offered to increase budget transparency. 2024-10-24 2024-10-28 To view this letter and his response click here
Sandy Harrington, OCPS School Board OCPS Budget Transparency Did not respond to constituent's question 2024-08-02 2024-08-05 To view this letter and her response click here
Sandy Harrington, OCPS School Board Discontinuance of VSBA membership No response received. 2024-05-30 To view this letter click here
Sandy Harrington, OCPS School Board Comments on 12Mar24 school board meeting, and suggestions to improve FY2025-26 budget process Response provided did not address if any expense line items were eliminated from approved budget, and was non-committal on supporting any of the suggestions offered for OCPS FY 2025-26 budget. 2024-03-14 2024-03-15 To view this letter and her response click here
Dr. Daniel Hornick, Superintendent OCPS,
Dr. Judy Woolfrey, and
all OCPS School Board members at-large 		K-5 Literacy Textbook Evaluation This communication did not require a response.
In addition to thanking OCPS for soliciting the public's feedback on the pending textbook acquisition, the aim of this letter was to memorialize the evaluation of the suitability of the three textbook providers.
  • Only one textbook provider, Amplify-CKLA, steered clear of undesireable DEI and SEL ideology in their curriculum.
  • Click here to view a full evaluation of each of the 3 vendors.
 		2024-02-14 2024-02-14 To view this letter click here
Sandy Harrington, OCPS School Board OCPS K-5 textbook acquisition The response Ms. Harrington provided was strictly limited to a series of emails which listed the following websites and did not directly or indirectly address any of the questions posed in my letter.
She purports that, in as much as she has provided links to the below identified OCPS and Virginia Board of Education websites, she has fully responded to the questions raised about a particular planned OCPS purchase. None of these websites were designed for the purpose of listing the particulars to any single or specific acquisitions!
  1. Parents - Orange County Public Schools click here addressing parent resources
  2. Procurement Methods click here addressing types of procurements used by the Virginia Department of education
  3. Virginia's eProcurement Marketplace click here addressing the mandate required by Code to use eVA for purchasing all goods and services
  4. Curriculum Review Process Update for the Virginia Literacy Act click here addressing curriculum review process in accordance with the Virginia Literacy Act
  5. English, Reading, & Literacy click here addressing the review process for updating K-12 Standard of Learning for English Language
 		2024-02-07 2024-02-09 To view this letter and her response click here
Laura Byram, OCPS School Board Clerk and FOIA Officer FOIA request for information on OCPS 2023-2024 school budget The response received back from OCPS was completely non-responsive to any of the requests made in the FOIA request letter.
  • The response to the request for data existing data in an Excel spreadsheet was summarily rejected on the basis it is available on the OCPS website.
    • This completely misses the point for the reason for making the request to begin with.
    • The detail information on the website consists of ~1800 line items spanning 24 pages of small font text in a flat pdf file which cannot be searched, sorted, and analyzed unless manually typed into a spreadsheet.
    • If OCPS were willing, it could resolve these issues by providing the public the spreadsheet it used to create the pdf document in the first place!
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  • The response to all other questions was that "the data does not exist, because it was never created".
 		2024-02-05 2024-02-12 To view this letter and the OCPS response click here
Dr. Daniel Hornick, Superintendent OCPS Suggestions for OCPS School Budget Dr. Hornick responded with only with thanks for suggestions offered. No substantive response was offered as to the suggestions offered in my letter. 2024-01-30 2024-01-31 To view this letter and his response click here
Gary Honaker, OCPS COO Suggestions for OCPS School Budget No response received. 2024-01-30 To view this letter click here
Sandy Harrington, OCPS School Board Suggestions for OCPS School Budget No response received. 2024-01-30 To view this letter click here