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Board hears how governor's recommended aid may be eaten by new costs, leaving little net gain for MCPS
Summary
At a Feb. work session, Montgomery County Public Schools staff said a governor-proposed $53.7 million increase for the district could be largely offset by new requirements and shifts (blueprint planning time, community-school local match, special-education reimbursement changes and a pension cost shift), leaving roughly $6 million of net new state revenue under current assumptions.
Montgomery County Public Schools staff told the board during a budget work session that the governor's proposed increase in state aid would likely come with strings that substantially reduce its net benefit to the district.
"Within that $53.7 million increase, there is also a hit to us in terms of the blueprint planning time expectations of around $15 million, minus $8.6 million in our local contribution required for the expansion of community schools, minus an additional $4 million for the change in the reimbursement split," said Doctor Taylor, leading the presentation on the FY26 discretionary budget. "So of the $53.7 million, we are still better off today than we were yesterday, but the changes only leave us with an additional, approximately $6 million…
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