School board approves $3.3 billion budget

[Anonymous]

Besides virtual academy, what item has been eliminated for FY25?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Besides virtual academy, what item has been eliminated for FY25?

Office of the Deputy Superintendent
Office of the School System Medical Officer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Besides virtual academy, what item has been eliminated for FY25?

Office of the Deputy Superintendent
Office of the School System Medical Officer

What did the Office of the School System Medical Officer do? Will there still be school nurses? Will they have oversight? Will someone be making sure that students have all state required vaccines and that athletes pass their physicals?

I’m all for reducing bureaucracy, but I’m not sure why they start with medical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Besides virtual academy, what item has been eliminated for FY25?

Office of the Deputy Superintendent
Office of the School System Medical Officer

What did the Office of the School System Medical Officer do? Will there still be school nurses? Will they have oversight? Will someone be making sure that students have all state required vaccines and that athletes pass their physicals?

I’m all for reducing bureaucracy, but I’m not sure why they start with medical.

Yes all those things will still be done just like it was before a Medical Officer was hired. But there will be other programs/ initiatives that will either be scrapped or have to be shepparded by others in CO and outside MCPS. Like the focus on vaping, opioids, and narcan training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Besides virtual academy, what item has been eliminated for FY25?

Preschool programs and trade school -auto - all things that directly hurt students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3.3 billion NOT million
many cuts being made

There's been a lot of fat in their budget for years. They keep creating new CO jobs. Investing in silly SEL or RJ programs that people hate and don't work. All kind of pointless studies or hiring expensive lawyers or comms firms that they wouldn't need if things were run soundly. The default can't be just keep raising taxes every year. My property taxes go up even without them raising the tax rate so they should be getting enough to keep up with inflation. It's just a matter not mismanaging things.

[Anonymous]

They seriously need to remove some of these SEL lessons especially from pointless advisory time when students do not engage instead use Chromebooks or are on their phones. School leaders say "if you don't have the SE learning part, students can't get the academic piece." Bogus.

[Anonymous]

I think paying for AP tests for all is fantastic! The economic benefit is much less than the cost. My daughter went to UMD with 18 credit (before they started paying). In her case, it allowed her to obtain a minor. For a student who is struggling financially, it could allow them to graduate early. Much cheaper than the ridiculous forgiveness of student loans.

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Anonymous wrote:I think paying for AP tests for all is fantastic! The economic benefit is much less than the cost. My daughter went to UMD with 18 credit (before they started paying). In her case, it allowed her to obtain a minor. For a student who is struggling financially, it could allow them to graduate early. Much cheaper than the ridiculous forgiveness of student loans.

As long as they only pay for this for people with financial needs. Rich people can afford the AP tests.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think paying for AP tests for all is fantastic! The economic benefit is much less than the cost. My daughter went to UMD with 18 credit (before they started paying). In her case, it allowed her to obtain a minor. For a student who is struggling financially, it could allow them to graduate early. Much cheaper than the ridiculous forgiveness of student loans.

As long as they only pay for this for people with financial needs. Rich people can afford the AP tests.

Means-testing programs is almost always a horrible idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think paying for AP tests for all is fantastic! The economic benefit is much less than the cost. My daughter went to UMD with 18 credit (before they started paying). In her case, it allowed her to obtain a minor. For a student who is struggling financially, it could allow them to graduate early. Much cheaper than the ridiculous forgiveness of student loans.

As long as they only pay for this for people with financial needs. Rich people can afford the AP tests.

Means-testing programs is almost always a horrible idea.

How so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Besides virtual academy, what item has been eliminated for FY25?

Class size max increased by 1 student so classes will be larger and teaching positions have been eliminated and teachers shuffled. This will be felt lots in cases where say you used to gave 4 sections of kindergarten now you might be able to have three since the max on each section is higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think paying for AP tests for all is fantastic! The economic benefit is much less than the cost. My daughter went to UMD with 18 credit (before they started paying). In her case, it allowed her to obtain a minor. For a student who is struggling financially, it could allow them to graduate early. Much cheaper than the ridiculous forgiveness of student loans.

As long as they only pay for this for people with financial needs. Rich people can afford the AP tests.

Means-testing programs is almost always a horrible idea.

Seems like a great idea. In fact, it's thinking like this that gets them into financial trouble in the fisrt place.