THE BALTIMORE County School Board adopted an $891 million spending plan at its regular public meeting last week with not even a breath of discussion.
Picture that.
And this: It's a place-holder budget -- school officials don't know whether their operating plan is achievable or their bottom line real, and won't know until the state figures out how much aid it will give counties, and yet ... no comment.
Should county residents take this to mean that the board is all talked out, having debated the issues in previous forums, public and private? That they agree lockstep with every provision in what's a very provisional budget? That they have it all figured out, including Plan B for what will be sacrificed if the actual budget comes in low?