Weast backs away from "cut" list

In December, Superintendent Jerry Weast released his proposed FY11 Operating Budget.  Along with that document he released a list of threatened cuts that could be made if his proposed budget was not fully funded.

The Parents' Coalition has obtained a January 8, 2010, memorandum from Superintendent Weast to the Board of Education. In this memo, Board members apparently (although none are named) ask "questions" about the proposed cuts.  Somehow, the details of these proposed cuts are all now very sketchy.

Let's have a courageous conversation about the MCPS budget. If cuts need to be made, let's see the details, the data, the figures and the facts.  Instead, what we get from this memo is statements like this one;

"the superintendent of schools has not made any proposals for reducing any positions or services, including central office..."

January 8, 2010 Weast memo to Board on proposed FY11 cuts