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[quote=Anonymous]From: https://www.mabe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Issue-Papers-2020-Session-local-government-only.pdf

Counties may exceed the charter limitations on local property taxes for the purpose of funding the approved budget of the local boards of education. If a local property tax rate is set
above the charter limit, the county governing body may not reduce funding provided to the local board of education from any other local source and must appropriate to the local board of education all of the revenues generated from any increase beyond the existing charter limit. This authority was adopted at the 2012 regular session to ensure that counties have the fiscal ability to meet new education Maintenance of Effort requirements.

Which I assume paraphrases Md. Education Code Ann. § 5-104(d)(1): Notwithstanding any provision of a county charter that places a limit on that county’s property tax rate or revenues and subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a county governing body may set a property tax rate that is higher than the rate authorized under the county’s charter or collect more property tax revenues than the revenues authorized under the county’s charter for the sole purpose of funding the approved budget of the county [school] board.

Rich Madaleno really screwed us over in 2012.

It seems like the county council will be complicit with Elrich's highway robbery.  In 2020, they quickly sent out a statement shooting down Elrich's 3.18 cent increase proposal.  Crickets this time.  This time, Evan Glass even said, "We must balance the needs of today with those of tomorrow, which include supporting our schools, our teachers, our first responders, our healthcare professionals and other frontline workers" which sounds to me that he supports the increase.

One of Elrich's defenses for his budget proposal is that DC will pay their teachers $75,000/year.  That's a strawman argument because MCPS does not compete with DCPS. MCPS competes with FCPS and HCPS and VA pays their teachers far less than MD.  DC has a higher cost of living than suburban MD, so of course they need to pay more.  And like other posters have mentioned, DC and Baltimore paying more per student have not yielded desired results.  Everyone needs to call their councilmember and ask them to find an alternative to fund MCPS.  Keep the other parts of the budget the same and allocate any organic increases in revenues to MCPS and public safety only.  [/quote]

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