Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: Schools Will Honor Raises, Won’t Raise Class Size in ‘Difficult’ Budget...McKnight vowed. However, she added, “Out of necessity, some things must go.”.. [But not expense] accounts and unmonitored @mcps credit card use. Those stay.

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Schools Will Honor Raises, Won’t Raise Class Size in ‘Difficult’ Budget...McKnight vowed. However, she added, “Out of necessity, some things must go.”.. [But not expense] accounts and unmonitored @mcps credit card use. Those stay.

Montgomery County Board of Education members discussed the “difficult choices” they face paying for programs after the Montgomery County Council’s adoption of Fiscal Year 2024 budget.

Montgomery County Public Schools will receive $74.3 million less than it requested.

While MCPS will receive the most money ever from the County Council, it needs additional funds due to increasing enrollment, inflation and salary increases. MCPS’ FY 2025 budget looks even grimmer as one-time federal grants will expire by then as BOE members stressed at their Thursday business meeting.

“Next year’s fiscal cliff is looming on the horizon,” said Superintendent Monifa McKnight.

Regardless of any fiscal reductions, “We will honor our negotiated contracts, and we will not raise class size,” McKnight vowed. However, she added, “Out of necessity, some things must go.”..

Schools Will Honor Raises, Won't Raise Class Size in 'Difficult' Budget - Montgomery Community Media (mymcmedia.org)

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AnonymousMay 30, 2023 at 6:57 AM
One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four. . .
"While MCPS will receive the most money ever from the County Council, it needs additional funds due to increasing enrollment, inflation and salary increases."
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Formed in 2002, the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland seeks to achieve the goals of coherent, content-rich curriculum standards; high expectations combined with timely remediation and acceleration; a wider range of educational options for parents and children; greater transparency and accountability; and meaningful community input.

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What The Washington Post said about the Parents' Coalition

The coalition might be the best-known parent advocacy group in the region. Its members represent several constituencies, including parents of special education and gifted education students and fiscal watchdogs. The group's defining victory came this school year when the school system scaled back the fees charged to families for course materials.

Coalition leaders have drawn attention to the misuse of funds collected from students for activities, the broadcast of a commercial radio service on school buses and, with their "Weast Watch" blog, the travel habits of Weast and his lieutenants.

The Washington Post, June 4, 2009

Jerry Weast on the Parents' Coalition

"Along the way, you’ve had a challenging relationship with the Parents’ Coalition, the network of citizen activists who use the political process and other means to hold MCPS accountable.

The thing people accuse me of is listening, but not hearing. I hear, but I do not always agree. I am sorry that the world is faster than it was 10 years ago. I did not do that. [But] if we do not keep up, then our kids will be behind. We have to stop whining and get real."

Bethesda Magazine, March-April 2011