Once Again, a Battle Looms Over Funding Law and Montgomery County Schools Budget
Superintendent remains confident that he can win over the County Council.
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr’s proposed $2.2 billion fiscal 2014 budget for Montgomery County schools could face a familiar challenge—how to comply with a state law on school funding minimums while winning approval from a County Council determined to rein in spending on schools. Starr's spending plan, unveiled Tuesday, is $10 million—less than half a percent—above the funding floor mandated by the state’s maintenance of effort law, which requires counties’ per-pupil spending to remain the same or increase from year to year. But the half percent increase could have major implications. County school budgets that dip below the funding level can have the difference withheld by the state comptroller when passing through income tax revenues to…
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John
4:07 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012
This battle goes on every year and makes me sick. The schools need more money, MOE aside, because the number of students in the schools is increasing at a faster rate than the general population is increasing, in MoCo. Yet, the County Council, every year, does not give the schools enough money for MoCo's schools to remain among the top school systems in the country, which is why many people have … more ›