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Half of the county budget already goes to MCPS. How much more do you want to add?[/quote]
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Enough so that we build the much needed schools for all the kids already here, and the ones planning to move here in all the new housing being built.[/b]  Instead, we have Elementary Schools close to 1,000 kids (some over that), Middle Schools being built 1200-1500, and high schools over 3,000.

You think MCPS gets too much money?  Newsflash #3, people move to Montgomery County for the schools.  And they have been in a downward spiral for about a decade.  Want well-educated (don't give a damn about color) families to continue to move here?  Want property values to rise? Then the schools need to be at the top, not mediocre, not the bottom.

Dumping curriculum 2.0 is a start.  But it is not nearly enough.  [/quote]

OK, let's look at the capital budget. Transportation accounts for 24.1%, MCPS for 23.5%, WSSC for 20.5%, general government for 9.1% (that's mostly repairs to county-owned buildings), Montgomery College for 5.8%, public safety for 5.2%, and everything else (parks, planning, arts, recreation, natural resource conservation, housing, health and human servies) for 11.8%. Do you want to double the MCPS capital budget by, for example, defunding capital expenditures on the county's water and sewer systems? A new high school is $150 million, a new middle school is $55 million, a new elementary school is $35 million, not counting planning and land acquisition costs.[/quote]

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