Is This the Arlington Way? (High Resolution Version)

Ed Fendley, currently Chair of the Arlington County Public Schools (APS) School Board, has held a longstanding public and private agenda against the Arlington Traditional School. By intentionally misrepresenting APS policies or creating arcane APS bureaucratic mechanisms time and again to justify and amplify his point of view, Mr. Fendley has sought either to circumvent the 100% fair countywide admissions process to grant he and his few N. Arlington neighbors unfair and special access to the countywide school (thereby denying other Arlington communities of their opportunity to attend) OR to evict the school itself from its building and kickoff massive cascading boundary changes (1200+ students moved) so a new neighborhood school could be provided to his neighbors and supporters. While he has announced his desire to not seek re-election, in February 2009 he publicly stated his intentions to attempt yet again to pursue his narrow and parochial interests via his public office. Is this the Arlington Way?

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