Andrews: School system $100 mil increase is "non-starter"

MontCo council, school board spar over budget | Brian Hughes | Education | Washington Examiner

"The [schools] budget is simply unrealistic and unaffordable," Councilman Phil Andrews D-Gaithersburg/Rockville, said in the first formal budget meeting between the two camps this year. "To have a $100 million budget increase, that's a non-starter. It's nowhere in the ballpark."

...Council members say they are being inundated with complaints from concerned parents who were fed an exaggerated version of cutbacks as school officials propose roughly $32 million in raises for their employees.

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