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Yep - how much is this regional disaster going to cost us?

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Well, according to their draft budget from November, the programs themselves will cost about $10 million annually once they're rolled out to all four grades.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DNLJXC4F4A19/$file/Regional%20Program%20Model%20FY2027-2031%20Budget%20251120.pdf

The draft budget says transportation will only cost about $1.3 million per year but I think that's crazy talk. The latest presentation to the BoE gave estimated number of students per region going to regional programs at about 2000 per region. About 90% of them will ride buses, according to calculations MCPS used in November. A bus holds about 50 students. So, if these numbers are accurate, they will need about 35-40 additional bus routes per region. The claim a single bus route costs $50,000. So we can conservatively estimate that transportation for the regional model will cost $10.5 million per year.

So the answer is $20.5 million per year, and fully half of that money is to schlep kids from place to place.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DRTS9E719460/$file/Supt%20Rec%20Secondary%20Prog%20Analysis%20Boundary%20Studies%20260303%20PPT%20REV.pdf

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