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MCPS warns proposed state 'shifts' could reduce aid and change maintenance‑of‑effort calculations
Summary
CFO Yvonne Alfonso Windsor told the committee that three proposed state changes — cutting collaborative planning time funding, reducing nonpublic placement reimbursements and shifting pension costs — could lower MCPS state aid by millions and change how maintenance‑of‑effort is calculated.
Yvonne Alfonso Windsor, Chief Financial Officer, told the Fiscal Management Committee that three proposed actions in the governor's proposals would shift costs to local governments and local education agencies and could reduce Montgomery County Public Schools' state aid.
Alfonso Windsor identified three proposed shifts: the governor's proposed removal of collaborative planning time from state funding (about $15,000,000 as estimated in the state allocation), a proposed reduction to nonpublic placement reimbursement (from roughly 70% to 60% in the next year, yielding about $3,600,000 less for MCPS under the proposed change),…
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