This page was last updated: January 27, 2010
This is not an issue just for those who have children attending Clifton Elementary now or in the future. This is an issue that will impact the community as a whole.
Clifton Elementary School plays an essential role in our more rural community with its small town center. Clifton Elementary is where many families in our area first get to know each other. All of Fairfax County represents a great place to live. But Clifton is not like the more developed areas of Fairfax County, where children come to school knowing each other after having played or gone to preschool together in their neighborhoods.
For many, ties to the Clifton community are formed at the school. This community spirit is then returned back to the Town of Clifton and surrounding area through Scouts and other organizations. This relationship has been in existence for over one hundred years. Without a school near the town center, Clifton will lose it's identity and community spirit. Other Fairfax County elementary schools are located among well-defined neighborhoods with which they identify.
It would devastate the Clifton community to lose our school!
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Home of the Clifton Cardinals
Renovate our school, Embrace the community, Dedicate your efforts
Who We Are: Clifton RED is the Clifton area's campaign to address the two feasibility studies conducted by Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). The studies raise concerns about whether Clifton Elementary School (CES) can be renovated and how to relieve forecasted over-crowding in the southwestern portion of the county. In addition to highlighting potential obstacles to renovation, the studies discuss the option of closing Clifton Elementary and relocating its students to a new 900+ student school. This new school would be built on the Liberty Middle School site at Union Mill Rd.
To view these studies and other FCPS Board documents related to these studies, please visit:
Clifton RED
Please join us in our cause to Save Clifton Elementary School. This school is a vital and integral part of this small community.
Clifton RED would like to thank the Clifton PTA and the Clifton Betterment Association for their support.
For information about the Clifton PTA, please visit their website at: Clifton PTA
The efforts of Clifton RED are being supported in part by the CBA. For information about the Clifton Betterment Association, and to join the CBA please visit their website at: cba.cliftonva.us
This website contains external links which may or may not express the views and opinions of Clifton RED. Clifton RED is in no way responsible for content on websites reached through external links.
To sign the online petition, share a personal story and read other personal stories, please visit the online petition located at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-clifton-elementary-school---home-of-the-cardinals
Please feel free to sign our Guest Book. Thank you for your support!
Take Action!
The next meeting of the Southwestern Regional Planning Study Committee will be this Thursday, January 28th at 7 p.m. at Liberty Middle School, 6801 Union Mill Road, Clifton. This meeting is open to the public and is not a full Committee meeting. The Committee and Sub Committee Chairs will be in attendance along with new Committee members.
At the January 11, 2010 School Board Work Session, the committee chairs presented the Phase I Executive Summary. The Board: 1) Accepted the Committee's report and recommedation to begin phase 2; 2) Accepted the Committee's recommendation to add five elementary schools to the committee membership--Navy, Lees Corner, Waples Mill, Terre Centre, and Silverbrook; and 3) Established a time line for the final report from February 2010, to the May 10, 2010, work session. You can view the Executive Summary at: http://www.fcps.edu/news/AttExecSummaryPhaseIReport.pdf
Clifton Community representatives to the Committee, Charlie Rau and Ina Patton, have set up an email address that you can use to communicate your ideas and comments about the renovation and overcrowding issues. Contact them at: repsforclifton@gmail.com
In addition to submitting your email address to Clifton RED for updates, FCPS has also added a feature to their site to sign up for email updates directly from FCPS regarding these issues. You may sign up for email updates from FCPS at: http://commweb.fcps.edu/events/register.cfm
Please note that the views and opinions expressed by FCPS regarding these matters may not reflect the views and opinions of Clifton RED regarding these matters.
Show your support for Clifton Elementary by displaying your Clifton RED
Wristbands, t-shirts and magnets for your cars are available. Wristbands are 1 for $2 or 2 for $3, t-shirts are $10 each and car magnets are $5 each. Please make checks payable to Clifton Betterment Association. A t-shirt purchase will also get you a six month complimentary membership into the Clifton Betterment Association as long as you live within the boundaries of Clifton Elementary School. This is limited to one membership per family. Please email Clifton RED directly, at savecliftonelementary@gmail.com and let us know what you would like. Thank you for your support!
