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		<title>Cecil County Schools Get Windfall from State Kirwan Aid, Boosting Budget Over Demands for County $; Library Touts Citizen Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) will get about a $4.8 million windfall from new state aid, designed to be a “downpayment” on new educational improvement initiatives recommended by the state Kirwan Commission, in its new Fiscal 2020 budget—undercutting school advocates’ claims that students would suffer because the County Executive did not give schools everything they wanted. Dr. Jeff Lawson, the CCPS superintendent, appeared before a budget worksession of the Cecil County Council on Tuesday (4/9/2019) to explain his budget. He presented budget summary sheets that did not account for the new Kirwan aid and when he discussed numbers, he quickly mentioned that he was “not counting Kirwan.” It was not until Councilor William Coutz (R-2) specifically asked him about how much Kirwan aid would be pumped into the new CCPS budget that Lawson acknowledged a figure of “about $4.1 million.” In fact, the updated “fiscal policy note” on the legislation—enacted last week&#8211; calculates Cecil County’s share of Kirwan-related special aid at $4.8 million in Fiscal 2020 and estimates the same amount for Fiscal 2021. The aid includes $1,624,000 for special education; $1,553,000 for teachers’ salaries; $441,000 for transitional support instruction; $83,000 for a mental health services coordinator; $498,000 to aid [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Rejects Last Minute Schools Demand for $1 Million Budget Boost; McCarthy Budget Headed to OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County Council unanimously resisted demands from the county schools for a last-minute nearly $1 million boost in its budget on Tuesday morning (6/5/2018), setting the stage for the intact adoption Tuesday night of the Fiscal 2019 budget proposed by County Executive Alan McCarthy. In a letter from Dr. D’Ette Devine, the Cecil County Public Schools (CCCPS) Superintendent, sent to the County Council on Monday (6/4/2018), less than a day before the final Council review of the new budget, CCPS asked for a budget increase to give the schools an extra $955,000 above the county executive’s budget proposal. The letter said the schools needed the extra money “in order for the Board [of Education] to approve a balanced budget and fund negotiated agreements” with teachers, supervisory personnel and other employees. The letter said the schools could divert money from the “small capital improvement” budget, which is supposed to pay for school routine maintenance and repair needs, to operating fund accounts to cover part of the costs of pay boosts and cost-of-living increases negotiated with employees, on top of the extra funds CCPS was requesting from the County Council. But the Council rejected that appeal, unanimously refusing even to consider [&#8230;]]]></description>
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