Too busy sinking millions into pet projects like Leader in Me, and electric chalkboards, and promoting more Deputy Superintendents, and funding outside legal teams, and bocci ball, and Kid Museum, and anti-discrimination training, and electric buses, and renovations for newer schools like Poolesville, and ... |
Damn you, Poe's Law. |
...and, at the same time, much too far in arrears due to decades of County Council underfunding of budget requests. |
Maybe MCPS could focus on education and keeping schools maintained instead of paying attorneys to do this? MCPS joins national lawsuit against Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat https://www.fox5dc.com/news/mcps-joins-national-lawsuit-against-facebook-tiktok-youtube-and-snapchat |
I guess they wanted to diversify from hiring outside counsel to fight parents of children with special needs. |
"The council allocated $3.165 billion for Montgomery County Public Schools. That’s an 8.4% increase from this fiscal year" https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/maryland/montgomery-county/montgomery-county-council-passes-budget-with-property-tax-increase/ An 8.4% increase wasn't enough to renovate and ensure kids and staff don't get cancer at school, or have mice running around? Now I'm curious what MCPS will be spending the money on. |
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Most of it will go to teacher pay raises. |
Nice try. We get it, you hate teachers..*yawn* so predictable and soooo boring. |
Are you saying that’s wrong? Because it’s not. |
It is wrong and no, you’re not always right (actually, you’ve never been right come to think about it) we know who you are. Beyond pathetic at this point. |
Out of the $245M increase, $129M is going to an increase in pay. |
Just may have kept the budget even after accounting for inflation. |