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Principals and staff warn blueprint funding and student-based budgeting will force teacher cuts; boardists seek clarity
Summary
Principals and educators told the board that the district's shift to the state blueprint funding formula and student-based budgeting has produced large school deficits that may force elimination of teachers and intervention staff; board members sought more detail and asked administration for clearer communications.
Principals, teachers and district staff used public comment and committee reports at the May 8 meeting to describe how the county's implementation of Maryland's blueprint funding formula and student-based budgeting is producing school-level deficits and staffing losses.
"As I enter my seventh year as the principal of Hillcrest Heights Elementary, this will be the first year when I will be unable to bring back eight staff members," David Brown, principal of Hillcrest Heights Elementary, told the board. He said roughly 100 of his 415 scholars (about 20 percent) would lose intervention…
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