Reply to 5/12 County Council Meeting -- Gutting MCPS Budget Request to the Tune of $180M

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am old enough to remember April of 2026 when we all spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out out to change our August travel plans because TT had supposedly decided to move up the school year start date with 4 months notice.

His email to staff is more of the same theatrics. Yes, not getting the full funding will be hard for MCPS. Hopefully they can fund most of it. But with enrollment dropping, they really should cut positions. That TT is describing cutting staff while enrollment is declining as some kind of educational apocalypse is really telling that he sees our tax dollars as supporting staff rather than students [/quote]

The cuts due to declining enrollment have all already happened.  These additional cuts are on top of them and get rid of whole categories of staff doing important work in schools.[/quote]

The MCPS budget is not being cut. It's true that it probably won't get a $180 million increase.

$40 million of the increase is to pad the employee health benefits fund. We have heard for years that they are going to address the structural issues that are causing the fund to bleed money. When is this going to happen?

The state keeps shifting more costs to the counties. The county budget this year has to include $27 million for MCPS pension costs. This doesn't factor into the MCPS budget at all, but the money is coming from the same pot that funds the MCPS budget. On top of the regular pension costs, MCPS is the only district in the state that funds a pension supplement, which is going to cost $82 million next year. All of this is contributing to the need to cut positions.

TT is doing a great job mobilizing teachers and parents on social media. I applaud his success in this area. However, I wish he would focus his energies on addressing the structural issues in the budget that cause this fight every single year.[/quote]

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