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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's great that we're identifying so many deficits.   Clearly, there's a will to increase taxes/allocations to address them, since the 25-year underfunding of the system is what has made it so, as much as, if not more than, any mismanagement.  Run the numbers.[/quote]

Underfunding???? What are you smoking?[/quote]

Again, run the numbers.  Check the budget per student and compare that to whichever district you'd like to emulate.

Look at the budget requests for the past quarter-century, and then look at the eventual County Council appropriation, which has consistently under-funded the requests.  Check into all the ever-delayed/deferred facility projects that have resulted.  Imagine the extra maintenace coats for older infrastructure that come with those delayed capital projects.

Identify the impact of sweetheart-deal-to-developer exceptions to impact taxes.  Research the near giveaways of county educational property to private purposes that could have supported better current capacity.

Digest a of this with a reminiscent clip of Sam Seaborn on education from 23 years ago.  Still rings true.  Too bad we've apparently chosen other priorities.[/quote]

DP.
Perhaps everything that specifically impacts the classroom is underfunded, but MCPS definitely has plenty of money. I’d be more sympathetic if central office salaries and initiatives didn’t suck up so much of the funding. I suspect we could get rid of 3/4 of central office and the schools wouldn’t even notice.[/quote]

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