Exclusive: SEARCHABLE MCPS Budget Information!

At the recent Board of Education budget hearings, BOE members asked MCPS staff questions. MCPS staff is never able to answer the questions on live television, so the answers are typed up and submitted to the BOE at a later date.

(It's sad that the BOE has to ask questions about the budget, but since they don't write the budget they have no clue what's in it!) 

On the evening of January 23, 2014, the BOE held their first FY 2015 Operating Budget worksession.  At the worksession the answers to the BOE budget questions were distributed in binders.  MCPS posted the 44 pages of answers online in a non-searchable PDF file.

Why can't MCPS make a searchable PDF document?
No worries. We can!  So, here you go with TWO searchable versions of important MCPS budget information.

2/4/2014 UPDATE:  These budget answers have now been Revised.  See the searchable Revised document at this link. 

You can either read and search this document on

Dropbox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31645241/FY2015%2001-23-14.pdf

or on  SCRIBD:

  FY2015 01-23-14 by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

"Child loves math, but way teacher teaches doesn't apply to him."

Transcript:

"Thank you Dr Starr, I'm the parent of a high school student in Montgomery Public Schools. 

The way teachers teach and educate our students is very closely related and I think this is very important.

My child loves math but the way the teacher teaches does not apply to him so he is having a very hard time.


But my child is very shy so he couldn't stand up and ask for help or ask for any other support.


I'm Oriental / Korean and our culture is very... if we ask those kinds of questions to teh teacher, to our culture this is very rude.

He is very shy so he couldn't even ask the counselors.

So he had a really hard time and he struggled for the whole semester.

I understand a student has idea to change the class but if there is any way that we can get (students and parents) can get written notification regarding class changes or a drop of the class, any kind of information regarding class that would be really appreciated since as a parent I didn't get any idea and I didn't know what to do and how can I help my child?

Thank you, Starr."