Carefully preparing for a PWC school census

David Beavers
Published: March 19, 2008

In preparing for the 2008 school census, the Prince William County Public Schools Construction and Planning Services Office carefully reviewed a database of prospective mailing addresses. Using our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, we matched each address to the Prince William County database of addresses.

We removed addresses for the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park to avoid mailing our school census forms to these independent jurisdictions, who are both conducting their own school census.

Ms. Spurlin’s March 19 letter to the editor demonstrates that PWCS obviously mailed at least one school census form to a residence in the City of Manassas. However, it has been our specific intention to not send any forms to residences in the city. We regret this error, and would ask that the affected resident(s) simply discard the errant forms.

In mailing out more than 134,000 school census forms, we apologize for the unintentional inconvenience we have caused.

We have worked carefully to conduct the state-mandated school census in the most efficient and cost-conscious manner possible, and appreciate the cooperation we are receiving from residents.

DAVID BEAVERS

Supervisor of Planning
Prince William County Public Schools