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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Steve Solomon and Stephen Austin are moderates who want to make our funds achieve more. BOE not responsible for taxes but many BOE members have a socialist ideology. I'd recommend people who want a nonpartisan and efficient BOE who uses our money wisely to vote for Stephen Austin for At large and Steve Solomon for district 4. Apple Ballot tends to support socialist types.[/quote]
More than likely, Austin's stance on addressing over crowding by not looking at adjacent clusters will cause tax increases. [b]How else is MCPS going to pay for adding new additions or building new schools because he doesn't over boundaries to be changed in an over crowded cluster?   Also, at a time when MCPS can least afford it, he is a part of that lawsuit against MCPS. [/b]

Having "investment" experience doesn't mean you understand how budgets work in a school district.  Two separate things.

I'm betting he's against tax increases, though.  I haven't heard how he plans on addressing over crowded clusters without increasing the budget or not redrawing boundaries with adjacent clusters.[/quote]

I will NOT vote for Austin or anyone who is firmly against changes to school boundaries. In the decades that I have lived in this county, there have been few changes to school boundaries, even though the county has grown tremendously. I'm sorry if you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars more to be in X school boundary, but common sense should have told you that eventually, those boundaries would need to change and things may not always be the same...at least that's how it works in other places. The only people I know who are supporting Austin are those who moved so their child could go to a certain cluster.

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And they better get ready to have their taxes raised because MCPS doesn't have the budget to address all the overcrowding without redrawing cluster boundaries.   Taxes may go up anyways because part of MCPS's budget is now paying for the  lawsuit that Austin and his supporters are part of.

I'm curious what Austin and his supporters think should happen when Crown HS is built. Should no one get assigned to the new school?
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