Weast says $48 million in program, personnel cuts likely without increase in county funding of schools' budget
by Andrew Ujifusa | Staff Writer
Teacher positions would be cut and class sizes would increase by one student per class next year if the county does not give the school system an additional $82 million requested by the superintendent, according to early Montgomery County Public Schools projections.
Superintendent of Schools Jerry D. Weast said Friday that without any of the additional money that the school system would receive under a state education funding law, some $48 million in personnel and program cuts would be likely, with the elimination of 650 positions from the $2.16 billion fiscal 2012 budget that Weast proposed Dec. 15.
Cutting 193 classroom teaching positions would account for $12.6 million of the $48 million in savings in his proposed budget. Other possible cuts include 117 positions that deal with academic intervention and staff development...
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Phew, thank goodness the no bid contracts and consultants are protected! What would our students do without them?
ReplyDelete$48 million? Oh you mean 240 administrators would have to go?
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I don't get it. If enrollment is increasing, how can they even consider cutting 193 classroom teaching positions?
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ReplyDeleteThis is Superintendent Jerry Weast's standard cut list year after year - even though the MCPS budget has been steadily increasing.
The idea is to make a cut that is in the face of parents. Parents then get upset. Parents are then to run to County Council and demand more funding for the school system.
Council will say they don't have the funds. Parents are then to demand that their taxes be raised to pay to increase, even more, the school system's budget.
If Superintendent Weast cut 240 administrators, which he could do, parents wouldn't care and wouldn't lobby the Council for more money for the school system and wouldn't demand that their taxes be raised.