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AACPS finance chief briefs board on progress toward Blueprint minimum school funding; several programs need monitoring
Summary
Chief Financial Officer Steve Stanski told the board AACPS budgeted to meet most Blueprint minimum-school-funding requirements for FY26 but flagged several program-level shortfalls and potential waiver issues ahead of the Dec. 1 deadline.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools financial staff told the Board of Education on Oct. 15 that the district’s FY25 audited school-level data is now final and that the FY26 budget was prepared to meet most of the Blueprint-for-Maryland’s-Future minimum-school-funding requirements — but several program areas still need monitoring and possible interventions.
Steve Stanski, AACPS chief financial officer, told the board that FY25 is the baseline year for the state’s minimum-school-funding requirements and that the district has taken three major steps: a tiered resource-allocation change tied to poverty, account-structure changes to track Blueprint program spending by school, and journal-voucher entries to move centrally budgeted school-level expenses into individual…
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