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[quote=Anonymous]It's the fault of the political structure we have where the Council is responsible for defining tax rates and allocating funding to MCPS while MCPS/BOE decide how to spend that money including through union negotiations. It has created a situation where compensation costs are growing much faster than county revenues, and so each year compensation takes up a larger piece of the pie leaving very little for everything else from maintaining school buildings to materials to transportation. And it impacts class sizes as well. And because of this pressure the school district simply cannot allocate sufficient support the growing population of kids from families with low incomes. It would be a very different dynamic if the school district was totally separate from the county and could levy its own taxes.[/quote]
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