Exclusive! SEARCHABLE Starr's FY 2014 Operating Budget!

Here's a document you will only find on the Parents' Coalition blog.

It's a SEARCHABLE copy of the Superintendent's Recommended FY 2014 Operating Budget.

Here is the document that Superintendent Joshua Starr made public:

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/budget/fy2014/budget-and-complement-full.pdf

It's the full budget, all 544 pages.  

But, let's say you want to know if the Superintendent's Recommended Operating Budget makes any mention of artificial turf or Pearson. Try and search the Superintendent Starr document above using your computer.  No luck.  You see, when Superintendent Starr had that copy of his recommended budget loaded to the MCPS website the vast majority of the pages were loaded as IMAGES and are not searchable.  If you want to know what's in that document, you have to read it page by page.

So, the Parents' Coalition has taken the document, scanned it with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program, converted it to a PDF, and loaded it on to Scribd for your convenience. 

If you want to find a specific word in the Superintendent's Recommended Operating Budget all you need to do is put the word in the Scribd "Search this document" box.  Go ahead.  Give it a try and see what you find! 
Use the document below only!  
Click the link and enter a word in the "Search this document" box.

The Parents' Coalition blog is the ONLY place you will find a searchable copy of Superintendent Starr's FY 2014 Operating Budget.

  SEARCHABLE - FY 2014 MCPS Operating Budget and Personnel Complement  - Superintendent's Recommended by   Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

Note:  Some pages were garbled in the OCR conversion process, but the vast majority of the text is readable, and searchable.  

Why didn't Superintendent Starr make this document searchable in the first place? Why convert all the text pages to IMAGES and post IMAGES to the MCPS website?