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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as I can see, foot-dragging on this is a good thing. No one from the state has explained how anyone is supposed to fund and staff this pie-in-the-sky Blueprint mandate. The 25% funding release is probably about 2% of what would actually be needed. The legislature can tell everyone all it wants to have universal pre-K and class sizes of 15 and magically include every special education student in gen ed and make them achieve a diploma. The paper that's written on, and the paper the school systems are writing to claim how they'll achieve it by making 2+2 equal 5, are worthless.

The AIB can squawk all it wants and it won't change those facts. It's unrealistic and underfunded. People have been saying this for awhile. Now it'll magically be OK if we write some plans on paper? Uh-huh.[/quote]

Increased services are worth increased taxes[/quote]

We already did. We just increased taxes to fund public education last year:  https://dcist.com/story/23/05/25/md-montgomery-county-council-property-taxes-hike/

It is unrealistic to keep taxing the public to fund unrealistic and reckless choices that MCPS feels entitled to make.

MCPS has a lot of money. They lack competence, discipline and leadership, which more money will not and cannot fix. That’s a culture problem.

And Taylor needs to root out the cultural rot ASAP and improve results before even thinking of asking taxpayers for another red cent.
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We haven't implemented the blueprint yet. Things like universal preK and smaller class sizes are worth increased taxes. Whether or not existing programs can be cut is a different issue.

But most of the budget, and most of the annual spending increases, come in the form of teacher salary and benefits. It may be possible to save some money at the margins, and that's worth attempting to do, but it isn't going to change the reality or trajectory of spending. Between being in a HCOL area and benefit costs that will continue to grow at rates exceeding inflation, teachers are always going to be expensive.[/quote]

How did your reply address anything I said?

You keep saying these are worth increased taxes. I pointed out we DID increase taxes for that purpose.

Furthermore, MCPS structurally ALWAYS gets equal or MORE money to what it got the year before. We have been throwing more and more money at MCPS FOR YEARS and it has not improved the system or the outcomes. Throwing more money will not fix the severe, deep dysfunction and mismanagement that exists within MCPS.

And if you think there's no limit to the amount of tax increases you can impose on the public without serious backlash or consequence, you're living in a fool's paradise.[/quote]

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