By Adam Pagnucco. County Executive Marc Elrich has released his recommended FY25 operating budget today. It now heads to the county council for its review. The council approves the operating…
Budget and Taxes
By Adam Pagnucco. A group of former members of the county council and school board have written to County Executive Marc Elrich asking him to attach some strings to MCPS’s…
Can a Tax Hike Lead to Less Revenue?
By Adam Pagnucco. When you raise a tax rate, you get more revenue from it, right? Not always. If you want a demonstration of a rate increase and a revenue…
Build the Forest Glen Metro Entrance Now
By Adam Pagnucco. On April 28, 2006, the Washington Post printed this: Man, 2 Children Hit by Car Two small children, ages 5 and 2, and a man in his…
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Four, we looked at growth in county appropriations to schools. Today we will look at county appropriations per pupil. Let’s start with county appropriations per…
By Adam Pagnucco. Last time, we looked at total operating budget per pupil. Today we will look at spending measures based on county appropriations. School districts have many sources of…
By Adam Pagnucco. In Part Two, we looked at changes in total operating budgets and enrollments for Maryland’s top eight school districts: Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, Harford,…
By Adam Pagnucco. Part One described our methodology and provided basic statistics on total operating budget and enrollment. Let’s look at recent increases in school budgets. Regular readers will recall…
By Adam Pagnucco. Public school funding is a hot topic and we have certainly written a lot about it. Last spring, the county council voted to raise property taxes by…
By Adam Pagnucco. After two county audits found problems in a federally funded grant to immigrant rights group CASA, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors has voted to strip…