The decision on whether to cut hundreds of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) positions is now in the hands of MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor and the county school board after the Montgomery County Council on Friday approved a budget $36 million less than what the district requested.
“It’s real people, it’s not a line-item in the budget, it’s real people in real lives,” Montgomery County Education Association President David Stein told Bethesda Today on Friday. “We’re going to be working with [MCPS and the school board], and … I know our members are going to be advocating to them over the next couple weeks, until they have to make their final decisions. We’ll see where we go from here.”
In an emotional straw vote Friday in Rockville, councilmembers voted 9-2 to approve a $7.9 billion operating budget for the county for the next fiscal year — providing an additional $143 million in funding for MCPS, but still $36 million less than what the district requested…