Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Patch highlights the arguments for and against different funding levels. Weigh in on our poll or in comments to let us know how you want to see education funded.
Funding education has been an explosive topic in Carroll County for the past several months, heating up the past few weeks as education forums and town halls have been held all over town by both the Board of Education and the Board of County Commissioners. Carroll County Public School Superintendent Stephen Guthrie presented his proposed FY14 budget in December and the Board of Education recently adopted the budget. In FY13, the county funded the school system at $164.9 million. The Board of Education is requesting $166.6 million from the county for FY14, a $1.7 million, or approximately one percent increase over FY13. During last year's budgeting session, the commissioners allotted $164 million for school funding in FY14. Then, there …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Guthrie said the school system may again be facing drastic cuts budget in FY 2014.
Carroll County School Superintendent Stephen Guthrie recently sent a message to parents with an update on next year's budget and "possible consequences to our school system." The Board of Education held its annual budget work session on Dec. 5. At that meeting Guthrie expressed concern about next year's possible revenue and presented some options to address likely budget shortfalls. In his message to parents, Guthrie wrote "there is a strong possibility that we will again have to reduce spending by millions of dollars". Guthrie said that county Maintenance of Effort funding (the minimum funding required by the state) and reduced state funding coupled with increasing costs to run the school system could mean $9 million in funding cuts to…
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Carroll County school officials decry proposed legislation that could "pull the rug on education ... out from under us."
Robert Moton Elementary School's cafeteria was full Tuesday night but not with students. More than 75 people--parents and school personnel--attended an education forum to learn about the impact controversial state legislative proposals will have on Carroll County Public Schools. Carroll County Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Guthrie said that if Maintenance of Effort (MOE) isn't fixed and teacher pension costs are passed back to counties, class sizes will increase, and services and extracurricular activities will be cut. Maintenance of effort is a law requiring counties to provide schools with funding per pupil at a level no lower than the prior year, and Gov. Martin O'Malley, in a separate issue, has proposed shifting the cost of …
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Voice of Reason
6:14 pm on Monday, April 22, 2013
Well Danny Boy you are just a fool about getting people out of Dodge aren't ya cowpoke?? Maybe you should hitch up your training pants and get out.............. more ›