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PGCPS details school-based budgeting, timeline after FY26 request sent to county
Summary
Director of Budget Shavonn Smith told the Operations, Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee the Board of Education's FY26 requested budget has been transmitted to the county and outlined how school-based budgeting (SBB), per-pupil amounts and charter funding questions will be handled as the system finalizes allocations.
Shavonn Smith, director of Budget and Management Services for Prince George's County Public Schools, told the Operations, Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee on March 19 that the board-requested FY26 budget has been transmitted to the county and that the district is now finalizing school operating resources and the requested budget book.
Smith said school allocations will be set by minimum school funding calculations, school-based locked allocations and centrally managed locked allocations. "We have our unlocked, locked, and locked plus positions," she explained, describing unlocked positions as those schools may purchase using allocated SBB funds and locked positions as those funded and staffed by central office for specialized requirements. She added that locked-plus…
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