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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cut the friggin school budget.  If times are tough for the country, then local govts need to stop spending money and increasing salaries.  Period. MCPS doesn't get to keep increasing spending ad infinitum despite economic conditions.  In fact, they should cut salaries.

Spending has little correlation with educational outcomes after a certain point. Why can countries like Sweden, Japan, South Korea, China, and Singapore produce a far better educational product than US public schools while spending 2-3x less?  Most of the money in systems like MCPS go entirely to an over bloated bureaucratic mess that pays 100s and thousands of unnecessary people crazy salaries with cushy pensions. Then they have to hire consultants for $2000/h to come up with a modernized curriculum teaching math, even though math needs no updating, and then spend even more money on more consultants to study  the potential impact and long term outcomes.

Cut and fire 80% in MCPS. Reduce taxes, make MoCo a better place to do business. [/quote]

They can't.  State law requires them to maintain at least the same per pupil spending as the year before.  There is no way for the power of the purse, in this respect, to demand efficiencies.  [/quote]

Blah blah blah.. then change state law rapidly. It shouldn't be hard.  Dems constantly tell us it can't be done, yet as trump showed, you can actually enforce immigration law, without massive reforms, overnight.  MoCo needs massive austerities, IMMEDIATELY. They're going to blow up the enire ccountry because they still can't wrap their brain around the big picture - the flow of easy money is over.  The govt left the area.  There are no more jobs. The county is about to become Baltimore. Austerity NOW.[/quote]

What did we do in 2008 during the recession? Were we temporarily exempted from the maintenance of effort funding rule?[/quote]

Stop trying to compare to 2008. This is far worse. MoCo could still suck the govt teat in 2008.  This is different. The govt is gone. Permanently. This is an existential crisis, yet progressives in the county think they can continue to tax and spend the same way as if nothing has changed.

It's like losing your job, ignoring that you have more income, then taking a huge $10,000 vacation on a credit card.  On what world would that make sense?[/quote]

This is right. Montgomery County’s biggest employer is cutting its workforce by 20 percent. It’s also cutting grants and contracts that will result in more job losses.

What did your council members do yesterday? They spent yesterday expanding a subsidy for developers that was already set to cost the county $2.6 billion. Most residents won’t even be able to afford the new housing, so they’ll be subsidizing housing that is too expensive for them to live in.

The county council will vote to raise your property taxes in a few weeks. At the same time, they’re rushing to exempt developers from property taxes, so the only people the council actually listens to will have no reason to care about property taxes because they won’t have to pay anymore. [/quote]

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