the superintendent karen garza calls it practical and realistic. she says there are three big factors driving the numbers here. the growing student enrollment. they are looking at 188,000 plus students next year. the changing demographic. keeping the teachers from leaving and going to neighboring school districts. quite frankly, fairfax county maximum teacher salary lags behind so many other school districts. now, this budget comes with a a big warning as well. the superintendent saying this is not reflective of all the needs the school has now and in the future. they're asking for $70 million from county supervisors. also karen garza in her warning says there needs to be some sort of long-term funding plan to maintain the quality of their school plan here. there will be some public hearings coming up later this month before all of this is over before the school board votes and before this is sent on to the board of supervisors. live outside of mcclain high school. >> 54,288 students received an undergraduate degree last may according to a report w

karen garza told her board that the school system could face a deep physical hope come fiscal year 2017. >> in fact, we estimate that the projected deficit will be well in excess of $100 million next year. >> the issue, one the county has faced for years, is that revenues struggle to keep pace with skyrocketing enrollment, changing student demographics and the myriad of costs associated with running one of the biggest school systems in the country. >> it's my opinion that we don't have any more to cut. it's my pleasure to present the proposed fiscal year '16 budget. >> dr. garza spent far more time talking on this night about the fiscal year 2016 budget she formally presented. the $2.6 billion proposal resulted in a 2.5% in last year's budget. the biggest chunk teachers salary increases. they say they're losing talented teachers to neighboring systems that pay better. >> we have to be concerned about how we stack up to surrounding school systems. >> the board has until may to adopt a budget. in falls church, jay korff, abc 7 news. >> all right. thank you, jay. >> well, time now to take

superintendent karen garza unveiled a $64 billion proposed budget this evening. that's up 2.6% from last year. the proposal calls for $59.4 million in salary increases for workers. when compared to nine other local school districts, fairfax county ranks last for maximum teacher salary. >>> next at 11 the announcement that president obama made on facebook tonight. it could have a big impact on education. >>> also oop. >> residents of a college park apartment complex talk to police about a crime spree. >>> and from brutal it's just 12 degrees, to better. i'll show you a pattern change and take a look at our storm team weather deck. cold dry though. show you a few flurries and tell you how long they could hang we thought our cable internet was fast. but, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really half-fast. so half-fast. someone did a half-fast job posting our vacation pics. stop living with half-fast internet. only verizon fios comes with speedmatch - uploads as fast as downloads. get a fios triple play for just $79.99 a month online

>> reporter: i can tell you that superintendent karen garza admits they made the wrong call. they're sorry and say they learned a lot. many people would give credit when someone does actually admit a mistake, but the twitter sphere is not letting up. we're letting you talk. parents, teachers and students you'll hear from first and then you'll hear superintendent garza respond. >> it was a bad commute this morning, one of the worst ones ever. this was not that much snow, but it was very wet and icy. >> i definitely think they should have closed it off at least had to delay because none of the roads were taken care of. >> what i don't agree with is their bending to peer pressure and the parents to close after school activities. look at the roads. they're fine. >> the decision was made with the best information we had at the time. it's obvious now the decision was not the right one and certainly we regret all the challenges that were created. we are evaluating how the decision was made and in the future we'll make adjustments to that process to ensure this doesn't happen again.

karen garza said we are in fact losing some of the best teachers and best administrators to neighboring school divisions because of this salary lag. now, this is the start of a long process. there will be public hearings this month as well as the adoption of the budget proposal by the school board. then it's on to the board of supervisors. now, in our next hour i'm going to talk about how the superintendent plans to address some of the system's most pressing need and her instructingstrugg pay for them. that's coming up in the next hour. >>> if you live in virginiaup. your kids may not be graded on the a-f scale. they want to improve the public school system with an overhaul. and changes to teach or training. governor mcauliffe said they will spend more on pre-k classes. >>> the man you see in the video here accused of ramming two prince george's county police officers is facing a police arrested gene brandon shortly after. he accused them of shooting his brother, which never happened. they had to pull their weapons when arresting brandon but never used force. >> speaks volumes to the tr

that's also when karen garza started her tenure in fairfax county. dr. erik williams just started in loudoun county last july. well the commissioner of the national football league isn't having a particularly good year you could say. >> you can say that. and many people are saying that. today, roger goodell gave a state of the league address ahead of this sunday's super bowl. and robert burton here now with a look at what the comish had to say. >> let's say he had a lot of explaining to do. probably needed more than one press conference to talk about all this stuff. roger goodell touched on a number of things in his state of the nfl address. one of those the most recent scandal, deflate gate. he told the media the nfl is conducting a thorough and objective investigation into whether the patriots deliberately let air out of the footballs in the afc title game. but also stressed they haven't reached a judgment that anyone did anything wrong and that's the final verdict on that will be made public. there was also an emphasis on domestic violence. he spoke o

we'll have more straight from superintendent karen garza when we come back at 6:00. live at fairfax county public school headquarters, debra alfarone, wusa9. >>> investigative reporter russ ptacek takes an in depth look how people in fairfax county took to twitter to voice their displeasure about the decision not to close schools a little later in the newscast and in a few minutes how other districts handled today's snowy roads and treacherous conditions. >>> the snow is done falling from the sky, but the stuff on the ground is not going anywhere. first alert meteorologist erica grow joins us now and it sound like we're in for a cold night. >> not only cold, but then it turns frigid. so tonight the winds will start to pick up, but the temperatures plummeting. that's going to allow refreezing on those roadways and we have plenty of snow on the ground, especially look at that at the u.s. capitol building. we picked up 4-inch, 2.8 in montgomery village, 3.8 in glenarden and about 3 1/2 in silver spring and chevy chase about 3 3/4 inches. baileys crossroads picked up 3.1