Reply to 5/12 County Council Meeting -- Gutting MCPS Budget Request to the Tune of $180M

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mcps balloon has popped. [/quote]

Sadly this will be the downfall of public education in this area. County council failing to recognize that if you don’t pay teachers their COLA or steps, while raising insurance premiums with worse coverage, teachers will leave. It won’t be the teachers within 5 or 7 years of retiring, but those that are only five or seven years into teaching, the brightest and most capable ones won’t see the value in staying. You can’t take home less money each year and still pay the bills when inflation is skyrocketing.

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Was that money guaranteed to go to the teachers ONLY, and not for any other purpose?  If not, then I’m in favor of cutting MCPS’ budget to ensure that less of my tax dollars are wasted by the current leadership. [/quote]

Yes, MCPS bargained a contractor with the teachers and is committed to paying them the COLA they agreed to.  If the funding is not passed they will have to go back on their word and renegotiate the contract to take the raises away (unless the union refuses, but they won't since the alternative is laying off hundreds of teachers.) But if the funding does pass, the contract is binding as-is and the money goes to teachers getting their COLAs.[/quote]

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