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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone at our school is being told to push the County Council and State to give MCPS more money to stop the class sizes from growing. Our elementary school will lose three teachers which is terrible for any school where the students and parents know the long time teachers.

It seems unlikely that the state is going to keep giving MCPS more money.

Why do we not have the option to cut other parts of the MCPS budget? Class sizes and teachers are the most basic functions of a school system. MCPS has a ton of other programs, outreach activities, grew its PR team and legal teams, the curriculum team, and other funded areas beyond direct instructional staff. Why are these always off limits but the teachers are the first to go?[/quote]

MCPS does this every year.  It's part of the political battle with the Council over the Maintenance of Effort requirement.  However, this year MCPS got screwed by the State.   A short answer to your question is yes, MCPS can cut other items.  But they politicize cuts that people care about in order to pressure Council.   Council is hesitant to fund everything because that sets a new mandated minimum spending level, and because Council has extremely little say over how MCPS actually spends its money.[/quote]

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