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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Board of Education cannot raise your taxes. They will of course ask for more money every year because1- everybody wants a pay raise the next year and 2 - thousands of more students come to MCPS every year - thousands.

The County Council is responsible for taxes, and no matter what nut-job Robin Ficker would like you to believe, they have all already committed to no new taxes next year and no raising taxes next year.

Get ready for cuts a lot of pain everywhere. For schools it's going to be worse for every school, because we will get more students than usual because privates will have people leaving who can no longer afford it, that's what happened in 2008, and because we already have horrible overcrowding. [/quote]

Why does MoCo have such horrible overcrowding? [/quote]

Because in many places, enrollment exceeds capacity, and MCPS hasn't undertaken any boundary adjustments to reassign kids to nearby schools that are under capacity.[/quote]

In what areas are enrollments exceeding capacity and why are they seeing increased enrollment?[/quote]

The overall reason for overcrowding is MCPS does a really poor job of estimating enrollment when it comes to new development. For example, if an apartment building goes up in Bethesda ($2k+/month rents), they assume only a tiny fraction of tenants will be families so that 100-unit building will only add a couple kids to the schools. In reality, lots of families move there so the actual number of kids is much higher. They constantly under-project -- they didn't properly account for all the empty nesters in developed neighborhoods who moved out, and families with kids taking their place either.

For new buildings, developers have to pay an "impact fee" for the additional resources the new residents will use. It ranges in the $10-25k/unit price depending on the type of building. But if you look at the recent school construction projects, it costs about $60k/seat to build or renovate a school.

In short, there's blame all around.[/quote]

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