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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an MCPS employee, a parent of MCPS students, and a Montgomery County homeowner. I’m glad the county council is listening to those of us who said we cannot afford to write MCPS a blank check. I’d love to see the council go line by line through MCPS’ budget.[/quote]

Line item vetoes by the council is what we need. Taylor will cut things such as Special Education, hitting other vulnerable populations, instead of rethinking his vast regional program boondoggle. The real costs for that fiasco won't be proposed for another year, but it's been so poorly planned that it will not be something that benefits the community. I'd like to defund Taylor's salary, as a start.[/quote]

This is not legally possible. Council gives the total amount but has no control of what it's spent on. Only the Board of Ed can control the details of what the money is spent on.[/quote]

I know it is not legally possible. My larger point is that the superintendent has too much power in this state. We need to rewrite state rules that empower BOEs, and county councils, to have a greater check on superintendents. As it stands, the council is more powerful, on a large scale, than the BOE, in determining school district decisions.[/quote]

The BOE already has the ability to control where the spending goes, they just won't use it and instead make the choice to defer to the Superintendent the vast majority of the time.

(Partly because their staff are all in the pocket of MCPS Central Office and tell them it's inappropriate for them to question MCPS decisions-- and partly because they're not brave enough to rock the boat.)[/quote]

BS. BOE isn't controlled by central office. They just don't take their job seriously because they see it as political steppingstone or the only way they can get whatever specific thing their own children need. [/quote]

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