FY 2007 Operating Budget
$122M Increase
Salaries and Benefits
$75 Million
Initiatives to
Improve Student
Achievement
$15 Million
New Schools
and Growth
$18 Million
Utilities, Transportation,
Inflation, and Other
$14 Million
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE • MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS • ROCKVILLE, MD
Special Education
Spending Increase
Millions of dollars
400
350
340
300
286
250
200
200
220
240
312
257
FY `01 FY `02 FY `03 FY `04 FY `05 FY `06 FY `07
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE • MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS • ROCKVILLE, MD
Schools with Full-Day K
Expansion of Full-Day
Kindergarten 2001–2007
120
110
93
80
73
56
40
0
17
56
34
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE • MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS • ROCKVILLE, MD
Investing to Achieve
■ Expand full-day kindergarten
to 110 schools
■ Enhance violence
prevention
■ Improve special education
■ Increase foreign language
translations for parents
■ Lower class sizes in high
school
■ Expand IB and gifted
programs
■ Strengthen middle schools
■ Improve high school
supports
■ Improve technology supports
for instruction
■ Add more elementary
assistant principals
■ Add more support staff
■ Expand Study Circles
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE • MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS • ROCKVILLE, MD