Taylor's Operating Budget releases 12/17 at 6:30 pm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taylor is asking for $179 million above what MCPS asked for last year.

Will the County Council roll over and give what he's asking for again?

That's about right for inflation, so hopefully they will.

Do you think there's infinite one to keep giving teachers raises every year? If so, where do you expect it to come from, cause I don't know if you heard, but county revenues are down and projected to be short in the near term: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/12/08/moco-revenues-crash-and-burn/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taylor is asking for $179 million above what MCPS asked for last year.

Will the County Council roll over and give what he's asking for again?

That's about right for inflation, so hopefully they will.

Do you think there's infinite money to keep giving teachers raises every year? If so, where do you expect it to come from, cause I don't know if you heard, but county revenues are down and projected to be short in the near term: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/12/08/...nues-crash-and-burn/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any written information provided on the budget yet or just this meeting?

I think it should go up here but hasn't been posted yet: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/budget/

The one page summary has been posted: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GJKuduRVabGklonUKc2u7VmIcBsrbNW/view?usp=drivesdk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any written information provided on the budget yet or just this meeting?

I think it should go up here but hasn't been posted yet: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/budget/

The one page summary has been posted: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GJKuduRVabGklonUKc2u7VmIcBsrbNW/view?usp=drivesdk

There's a reference in there to class size reductions... did he say anything about that in the presentation?

[Anonymous]

Reducing elementary class sizes by 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any written information provided on the budget yet or just this meeting?

I think it should go up here but hasn't been posted yet: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/budget/

The one page summary has been posted: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GJKuduRVabGklonUKc2u7VmIcBsrbNW/view?usp=drivesdk

Thank you, this is useful information.

So Taylor is adding 10 FTEs to stand up his regional program model and he's saying they'll be "school-based," which I guess means they'll program coordinators in each of the regions?

What happens to all of the people who currently work in the Department of Consortia Choice: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/schoolchoice/

I assumed those people would be repurposed for this, and maybe they are, which would bring that total number of people dedicated to the regional program model up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taylor is asking for $179 million above what MCPS asked for last year.

Will the County Council roll over and give what he's asking for again?

That's about right for inflation, so hopefully they will.

Do you think there's infinite one to keep giving teachers raises every year? If so, where do you expect it to come from, cause I don't know if you heard, but county revenues are down and projected to be short in the near term: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2025/12/08/moco-revenues-crash-and-burn/

Revenues aren't down. They're still going up- they're just not going up as much as previously projected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reducing elementary class sizes by 1

Reducing elementary class sizes is a good goal, but reducing them by one will have a negligible impact on classrooms. I'd want to see reductions of class size by 3-5 before I clap for Taylor.

[Anonymous]

Arcola is definitely not going to have its Year-Round calendar next year. The writing was already on the wall when Roscoe Nix abandoned it. I know some Arcola parents are going to be upset but I actually agree with MCPS on canning it. It hasn't had the impact we'd hoped for on academic improvement.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. It says phase 1 of 5. Will be curious to see what the other 4 phases are in future years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any written information provided on the budget yet or just this meeting?

I think it should go up here but hasn't been posted yet: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/budget/

The one page summary has been posted: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GJKuduRVabGklonUKc2u7VmIcBsrbNW/view?usp=drivesdk

Thank you, this is useful information.

So Taylor is adding 10 FTEs to stand up his regional program model and he's saying they'll be "school-based," which I guess means they'll program coordinators in each of the regions?

What happens to all of the people who currently work in the Department of Consortia Choice: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/schoolchoice/

I assumed those people would be repurposed for this, and maybe they are, which would bring that total number of people dedicated to the regional program model up?

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The $1M is for the regional program coordinators at each individual school (one coordinator covering all programs, whether related or not.). It's only 10 FTE rather than 27 because they're only part-time program coordinators to start (and because they're not giving them to schools which already have program coordinators.)

And no, they are not cutting central office staff to assign them to the schools to support the regional programs. In fact they talk about needing more central office staff time for "Planning regional programs" as one of the justifications for the increase on line 27.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any written information provided on the budget yet or just this meeting?

I think it should go up here but hasn't been posted yet: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/budget/

The one page summary has been posted: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17GJKuduRVabGklonUKc2u7VmIcBsrbNW/view?usp=drivesdk

Thank you. 50 people from central services is a lot. Did they clarify what jobs will be cut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reducing elementary class sizes by 1

Reducing elementary class sizes is a good goal, but reducing them by one will have a negligible impact on classrooms. I'd want to see reductions of class size by 3-5 before I clap for Taylor.

So by what amounts to another class? Where are these other classes going to be placed in schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reducing elementary class sizes by 1

Reducing elementary class sizes is a good goal, but reducing them by one will have a negligible impact on classrooms. I'd want to see reductions of class size by 3-5 before I clap for Taylor.

So by what amounts to another class? Where are these other classes going to be placed in schools?

This refers to the number of students in each class. So, each class in K-5 will be reduced by one student (on average).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reducing elementary class sizes by 1

Reducing elementary class sizes is a good goal, but reducing them by one will have a negligible impact on classrooms. I'd want to see reductions of class size by 3-5 before I clap for Taylor.

So by what amounts to another class? Where are these other classes going to be placed in schools?

If it's reducing class sizes by one, it just means going back to the guidelines in place a couple years ago before they raised them by 1.