PROPOSED BUDGET: $3,775,269,535
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 156,511
EIGHT BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS
ONE BUDGETPALOOZA!
The Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County is working with the Montgomery County Taxpayers League for our annual MCPS Budgetpalooza. We will go through the proposed FY27 Operating Budget chapter by chapter. The proposed budget is now proposed at $3.775 billion.
We are looking for volunteers to take a chapter or an appendix/appendices and report on it at the Budgetpalooza. If you would like to volunteer please let us know. If you can, please go through the budget and see which chapter (or appendix/appendices) is of interest for you to review.
This year the Budgetpalooza is Monday, February 16th at 7:30 pm - 9 pm by zoom.
DATE: Monday, February 16, 2026
TIME: 7:30 pm - 9 pm
LOCATION: Zoom
More information coming, please let us know if you can volunteer for this event.
Please pass this on to your neighborhood and PTA listservs!
Here is the link to the superintendent's proposed FY27 Budget: 2027operatingbudget.pdf
See you there!
To put it in perspective, it is almost three times the state deficit:
ReplyDeletehttps://marylandmatters.org/2025/11/11/budget-concerns-resurface-as-state-faces-projected-1-4-billion-gap-for-coming-year/