Jane Strauss has been on the Fairfax County School Board for a long time. So her misrepresentation of the Board’s approved budget at the Board of Supervisors’ public hearing on April 10 not only angered her fellow board members, it left county residents scratching their heads in disbelief, and the executive board of the local teachers’ union calling for Strauss’ censure or removal.

First appointed as an at-large member in 1991, Strauss became the School Board’s Dranesville representative in 1995, when Fairfax switched from an appointed to an elected school board. She became board chairman last year. She was there when the Board adopted its strategic governance rules, which require the chairman, who serves as the Board’s “official spokesman,” to “reflect the spirit and intent of the Board in its deliberations.”