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Carroll County board reviews decade of cuts and early FY27 budget outlook amid blueprint accounting changes
Summary
School leaders recounted about $40 million in cuts over the past decade, said enrollment decline cost the district roughly $16 million in state aid, and presented early FY27 revenue and expenditure projections; staff said consultant accounting methods and a state waiver have reduced the scale of cuts under consideration.
Carroll County Public Schools officials told the school board on Wednesday that years of staffing and program reductions have left little easy room to close future budget shortfalls and that the district’s funding position will hinge on state formula changes and the county’s FY27 operating allocation.
"We've cut $40,000,000 over the past decade," Dr. McCabe told the board as staff walked through a year-by-year reconstruction of personnel and program reductions the district made after enrollment declines and state funding drops.
The presentation, led by budget staff, paired a historical inventory of reductions with early revenue estimates for fiscal 2027. Rob Burke said Carroll County government’s FY26 operating plan provides a starting local increase of about 3%, roughly $7.6 million, but cautioned that the district must await the governor’s budget (by law released Jan. 21) and updated wealth-equalization data to finalize state projections.
Board members and staff framed the broader problem around Maryland’s…
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