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Board adopts FY2026 operating, capital budgets as staff warn of special-education funding gap
Summary
The Board approved the county councils FY2026 operating and capital budgets; staff warned of large gaps between special-education expenditures and state revenues and outlined a state-driven minimum-school-funding compliance schedule that will require school-level budget adjustments.
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt the FY2026 operating and capital budgets as approved by the county council, while Chief Financial Officer Matt Stanski told trustees the district faces a structural mismatch between special-education costs and state revenue that will force school-level reallocation in the near term.
Stanski briefed the board on the districts work to tag and allocate roughly $1.3 billion in Blueprint-related revenue and about $284 million in non‑Blueprint general‑fund items. He described a multi-step process the finance team has completed to align budget accounts with the states reporting templates and methodologies and to move centrally budgeted, school-based expenses (utilities, maintenance, technology and CTE center costs) into school-level budgets…
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