Prince George’s superintendent proposes minimal budget increase

Published January 7, 2012 5:00am ET



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.

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