Gazette: County council wants to know why, and how the money will be spent
Members of the Montgomery County Council will question the county school system this week on its plans for spending $33.3 million projected to be left over from its budget this year.
Montgomery County Public Schools is expected to end fiscal 2012 on June 30 without spending $21.4 million of its estimated $2.09 billion total budget, as well as $11.9 million it carried over from previous years, according to the school system’s May 8 monthly financial report...
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If the School System has a surplus and a carryover from last year, Why don't they transfer the funds to the General Fund. It would be nice if maybe they paid the County Back for the Promethian Boards they illegally purchased using Rebate funds? Just a thought.
ReplyDeletei don't understand how they have a surplus, and why they don't use the surplus to rehire some of the teachers they laid off due to budget.
ReplyDelete@ subishi - how many teachers were laid off due to budget?
ReplyDeleteactually, anonymous, i'm not sure if any were actually laid off, or if positions were just eliminated. I do recall that 1-2 years ago class sizes were increased and i know some part time MCPS teachers who voluntarily relinquished their positions due to being placed in more than one school in the county to teach 2 classes on the same day, and those teachers were not replaced. it's a sad state of affairs when a school system has a surplus that they don't know how to spend and we've got 25 kindergarteners packed into a classroom.
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