December 3, 2025 Staff and Community Update: Fiscal Year 2027 Operating Budget Overview
At the December 2 Board of Education business meeting, Dr. Rogers provided an overview of the development of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Operating Budget. During the presentation, Dr. Rogers emphasized that our system’s key priorities and investments are all focused on moving BCPS forward. She reviewed the factors that have changed at the federal, state,and local level impacting funding for local school systems.
This will be another difficult budget cycle for BCPS and other Maryland school systems given the continued expansion and implementation of the Blueprint and anticipated lower federal, state, and local revenue. For this reason, we want Team BCPS stakeholders to understand the operating budget process and remain engaged throughout this budget cycle, know how our funding is spent and accounted for, and understand how different roles across the school system directly impact the experiences of our students.
Key Highlights
- Budgeting elements in place for FY 27 include: no new initiatives unless state mandated, central office hiring freeze, review of all contracts for renegotiation/ reduction/elimination, and zero-based budgeting.
- Over the past two fiscal years, BCPS has made more than $168 million in reductions and eliminated non-school-based positions to address budget shortfalls.
- Dr. Rogers will submit a balanced proposed budget to the Board of Education for its deliberation. This proposed budget will be aligned to the county government target of a 2 percent increase above what we received in FY 26. The proposed budget will include the full Year 3 compensation package for Team BCPS staff. To ensure the budget is balanced, meets the county target, and includes the compensation package, we will need to identify additional reductions.
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Watch Dr. Rogers’ presentation
Budget 101