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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys. The County Council is not going to give MCPS more money. They already increased MCPS's budget by a lot and had to cut other things to do it. If you want more money for schools, we need economic growuth to bring more revenue.[/quote]

How was MoCo able to fund MCPS so much better in the past?[/quote]

They weren’t. In the last 18 years, Council only gave MCPS 100% funding 4 times. It’s often just 98% of what they asked for. MCPS received 99.2% of what they asked for this time but mismanagement of funds and staff have led to this mess.[/quote]

Adjusted for inflation, MoCo spent about $5k more per student in 2000 than we do today.[/quote]

Is that directly on students or does it include cost centers like pensions?

To answer the PP directly, we are just in a different educational landscape than we were 20 years ago. NCLB introduced time-consuming and expensive testing requirements. Demographics have changed, and there are more kids with significant educational needs. Folks like to lay that solely at the feet of new immigrants but it's not just that - other diagnoses are at an all-time high and parents are requesting increasingly bespoke accomodations. Income inequality is also record-high, and the shift to gig work and needs-based scheduling means that families that might have been lower middle-class 20 years ago are now just low income.

All of this comes out in the classroom, and it means we need more resources to teach the same number of kids. [/quote]

The total budget for MCPS has decreased on a per-student basis. Why are you asking about pensions?

A lot of things are attributed to NCLB that aren't actually in NCLB. Regardless, it's strange to point to that as the problem when we'd be in an enormously better position if we simply funded schools as well as we did before NCLB was passed.

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