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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MCPS operating budget has gone from $1 billion to $3.3 billion with almost flat enrollment.[/quote]

Please look a bit more in depth. Yes there is waste but lots of the issue is that it is more expensive now to educate the same number of students as years ago.  Start with simple inflation.  Add to that teacher salaries as well as all staff salaries have gone up to keep up with cost of living and also to be competitive with salaries in other nearby areas.  Technology cost has gone up now students all use chrome books.  Pre-k programs have expanded and those require more teachers per student than classes for older kids.  Montgomery County placed lots of intervention services into schools instead of in county facilities (think infants and toddlers, Pep, speech therapy, therapy services, social services and so on.  Now go to aging infrastructure like all the hvac systems coming to end of life.  Add aging pipes and other aging issues.  These all require more maintenance costs.   [/quote]

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