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MCPS fiscal committee: compensation, Blueprint local share and special education reimbursements drive $3.6 billion budget
Summary
Montgomery County Public Schools officials told the Fiscal Management Committee that rising compensation and benefits, added local shares for the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, and lower special-education reimbursements are the principal reasons the district’s budget has grown to about $3.6 billion.
Carla Silvestre, school board member at large, opened the committee meeting March 23 asking staff to explain “what is in that $3,600,000,000 budget” and why it has grown.
Yvonne Alfonso Windsor, chief financial officer, told the committee that state aid covers a portion of MCPS costs but that most state dollars require a local match. "For any amount of money that the state provides us, there is a local share that we have to either match or surpass," Alfonso Windsor said, adding that the district now receives roughly one third in state aid and two thirds from the local government.
Alfonso Windsor identified compensation and benefits as the single largest cost driver. "When you add up all this year since FY23 in compensation and benefits…
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