Prince George's superintendent proposes minimal budget increase | Washington Examiner

The superintendent's proposed budget for Prince George's County's public schools would barely raise the school system's operating costs and includes no teacher layoffs.

William Hite's $1.61 billion budget, an increase of only $238,200 from last year's budget, requires cost-cutting measures in nearly every department of the public school system to compensate for declining revenue.

Prince George's Public Schools officials face a $44 million budget gap heading into fiscal 2013, one year after shedding about 700 teaching positions in sweeping cuts that reduced school spending by $13 million in 2012.

Declining enrollment and the precarious budget situations at the state and county levels required a conservative budgeting approach, Hite said.