BCPS Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers presented her FY operating budget. Here is the full release from BCPS.
Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers presented a $2.49 billion operating budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 during the January 13 meeting of the Board of Education of Baltimore County.
The proposed budget preserves investments in system priority areas including academic achievement, safety and climate, and infrastructure, while prioritizing the recruitment and retention of the system’s more than 20,000 employee workforce through compensation enhancements.
The budget recommendation represents an overall $57.3 million increase in the General Fund budget (2.8 percent) and includes a projected increase of $19.9 million (2.0 percent) from the Baltimore County government.
Baltimore County funding is $29.7 million (3.0 percent) above Maintenance of Effort. The requested increase will support salary increases for all BCPS employees and help maintain operations at the highest level.
“Our system’s key priorities and investments are all focused on moving BCPS forward and we remain steadfast in our commitment to steward both the county’s school children and its tax dollars responsibly,” Dr. Rogers said.
“Difficult but necessary decisions had to be made for our FY27 budget proposal given that we are faced with a challenging fiscal landscape for the third consecutive year, and this has meant targeted reductions in new spending, contract spending, and staffing. But we remain forward looking and future focused when it comes to meeting the needs of our students and staff; our proposed FY27 budget retains and builds on the significant recent gains we’ve made in academic achievement, safety and climate, and infrastructure, including the honoring of compensation packages for year two and three agreed to with our employee groups.”
The investments outlined in the proposed FY 27 operating budget build upon the major investments made in Team BCPS over the past two years and are focused on improving educational outcomes for all BCPS students and providing them with the opportunities and
resources needed to meet their full potential.
BCPS has made record investments in early childhood education, curriculum, special education,
recruitment and retention, professional learning, infrastructure, school support, community schools, and safety and climate.
This has been a 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.
To address these budget challenges, BCPS put several budgeting elements in place for FY 27 including: no new initiatives unless state mandated; hiring freeze for central
office and non- school-based positions; 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 hundreds of non-school based positions to address budget shortfalls, including 69 supervisory level positions.
For FY 27, the system has identified an additional $62.1 million in cost savings and reductions to fund priorities.
These reductions include position reductions, costs offset to Title I and other grants, IT reductions, and modest changes to current staffing allocation formulas.
The full FY 2027 proposed budget will be posted online.
A Board public hearing will be held on January 20, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., to be followed by Board operating budget work sessions on
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, and on February 10, 2026.
The Board is scheduled to adopt its
budget at its Tuesday, February 10, meeting at 6:30 p.m.
