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A Call to Action to Fund Our Future

We must—

• Create a strong foundation for the future

• Restore investments in education

• Make a down payment on our children’s future to ensure they have every opportunity for success

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Student Voices: Marisela

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Student Voices: Ebonie

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Student Voices: Andrew

Alignment of the FY 2017 Budget

• Core Values and Strategic Planning Framework

• District Implementation Plan

• Board’s budget interests

• 2015–2016 Strategic Priorities• Strengthen the Foundation for Academic Success

• Focus on Accountability and Results

• Enhance our Culture of Collaboration and Respect

• Focus on Human Capital Management

• Strengthen Partnerships and Engagement

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Urgency to Act

• Performance data trends

• Preparation to be college and career ready

• Common Core State Standards (PARCC)

• Community Foundation reports

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Budget Challenges Since 2009

• Impact of Great Recession

• County and state still recovering

• Minimal funding at or below Maintenance of Effort level, resulting in significant reductions

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The Misnomer of Maintenance of Effort

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• MOE means the same dollar amount per student—NOT the same level of service

• MOE does not cover rising costs for inflation including salaries, benefits, utilities

• MOE funding requires cuts just to provide same level of services

Local MOE and State Aid Per-Student FundingFY 2009 – 2016 Operating Budget

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Staffing Allocations13

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No More Cuts

Any further disinvestment in education is a disinvestment in the future of our children

and our county.

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Budget 101 and the Program Budget

Created Budget 101 to present the MCPS budget in a simple way

• What drives our budget?

• Where does our money come from?

• Where does it go?

• How do we staff our schools to meet the needs of our students?

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Program Budget 17

Program Budget shows what we spend

by program in five broad categories

Section 1 – Additional support to students

• Prekindergarten

• Focus and academic intervention

teachers

• Title I

• Lower class sizes in focus schools

• ESOL services

• Intervention programs

• Minority achievement

Program Budget Program Budget shows what we spend by program in

five broad categories

2 – Collaborative Partnerships

• George B. Thomas Learning Academy

• ACES

• Linkages to Learning

• Excel Beyond the Bell

• The Kennedy Cluster Project

• Partnerships with organizations such as the

Mental Health Association and Interages

• Higher Education Partnerships

• Montgomery College

• Universities at Shady Grove

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FY 2017 Operating Budget Highlights 4.5 percent increase

Enrollment growth

Benefit cost increases

Negotiated agreements

Inflation and other increases

Strategic enhancements

Savings

Budget increase

$22.7 million

26.4 million

55.3 million

1.5 million

2.8 million

–5.7 million

$103 million

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FY 2017 Operating Budget Highlights

Budget request includes—

• $24 million to restore one-time funding from the OPEB trust fund

• $7.9 million for teacher pension costs shifted from the state to the county

Total requested increase: $134.9 million

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Reorganization to Better Focus the Work Around the Strategic

Priorities

• Move Partnerships and Shared Accountability to the Office of the Superintendent

• Establish Office of Student Services and Family Engagement

• Move Study Circles to the Equity Unit

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OPERATING BUDGET FOCUS ON STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

Literacy &Mathematics

Equity &CulturalProficiency

Partnerships &Engagement

CareerReadiness

Accountability& Results

Human CapitalManagement

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Equity & CulturalProficiency

• Create greater focus on cultural proficiency of staff within every school and office

• Align Study Circles team with the Equity Initiatives Unit

• Increase the number of equity specialists to provide more intensive support to schools

• Provide training and support to schools on restorative practices

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Student Voices: Equity

Equity & CulturalProficiency

• Create greater focus on cultural proficiency of staff within every school and office

• Align Study Circles team with the Equity Initiatives Unit

• Increase the number of equity specialists to provide more intensive support to schools

• Provide training and support to schools on restorative practices

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Literacy & Mathematics

• Increase professional development investment to support math and literacy

• Provide greater support to elementary math teachers

• Realign math resources to support greater differentiation and acceleration, meeting the needs of Grade 4 and 5 students in their home schools

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Literacy & Mathematics

• Expand summer school programs through the Children’s Opportunity Fund

• Enhance dual language programs

• Enhance literacy skills of ESOL students

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Career Readiness

• Enhance career pathways options and grow enrollment in programs

• Expand career exposure activities and engage employers to provide work-based learning activities

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Student Voices: Career Readiness

CareerReadiness

• Enhance career pathways options and grow enrollment in programs

• Expand career exposure activities and engage employers to provide work-based learning activities

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CareerReadiness

• Implement courses/experiences for 12th

graders to ensure college/career readiness

• Expand SEPA program to serve more students and provide a full-day program

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Accountability & Results

• Provide greater focus on accountability and results by reassigning Shared Accountability to the Office of the Superintendent

• Enhance assessment strategy to improve student outcomes

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Human Capital Management

• Accelerate efforts to improve and diversify workforce

• Expand “grow our own” Student to Educator Pathway (STEP) program with scholarships

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• Organize all students services and family and parent engagement in one office to ensure alignment of work and support of families

• Increase number of parent community coordinators in schools

• Expand ACES program to additional schools

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Partnerships & Engagement

Partnerships & Engagement

• Identify partnerships to expand extended learning opportunities, increase participation of underrepresented students in STEM fields, and support additional college readiness programs

• Elevate the work of forging new—and strengthening existing — district partnerships by incorporating work into the Office of the Superintendent

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#MCPSFundOurFuture

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Student Voices

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