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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jealous is about as likely to win as Peppa Pig based on the polling data. [b]However, if he did win there would be a massive shortfall in the MCPS budget. [/b]

The problem would then bounce between the BOE/MCPS and the County Council. The BOE/MCPS will expect the CC to come up with the funds to cover the shortfall by cutting other programs or raising taxes. There will likely need to be a combination of MCPS cutting its budget, the rest of county services cutting their budgets to share some with MCPS and a tax increase. This will leave everyone very angry.

MCPS already takes the lion share of the budget. It infuriated police, fire, and other county workers when during the recession when everyone's pay was frozen MCPS gave itself a raise by increasing the class sizes/teacher ratios. These groups are still mad about this a decade later. From their perspective, MCPS cries that they are helping the children and then turns around and rewards their own employees while the rest of the county employees were frozen. They are not going to be happy about giving up more. This is just one example. [/quote]

People keep saying that, in a sky-is-falling kind of way. I haven't seen any explanations from them for [i]why[/i] this would happen, yet.[/quote]

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