UPDATE: How Would You Spend $1,339,200?

Update, Feb. 14, 10 a.m.:

The Montgomery County Council will not decide today where to move the $1,339,200 in the county budget. According to an updated council agenda, the public hearing and subsequent action have been "postponed until further notice."

Original story, Feb. 13, 5 p.m.:

Federal rebate dollars through the Education Rate Program, also known as E-Rate, have freed up a little more than a million dollars in the county budget.

The Montgomery County Public Schools system has used the E-rate funds to pay for interactive Promethean whiteboards in high school classrooms, part of the county’s Technology Modernization project.

The Montgomery County Council will meet Tuesday for a public hearing at 1:30 p.m., after which it will decide where to send the $1,339,200.

County Executive Isiah Leggett has recommended moving the available money to the Relocatable Classrooms project, to address capacity issues in elementary schools. But MCPS wants the money to stay where it is--in the Technology Modernization project.

Here’s why, according to a Feb. 2 county memo:

lf the  County Council approves the Executive's recommendation of transferring $1,339,200 in current revenue from the Technology Modernization program, the district's plans to integrate wireless services in elementary schools will be affected. As a result, the installation of  wireless networks in 42 schools that had been planned for March 2012 will need to be scaled back significantly, and approximately 30 of these schools will not have their wireless network installed. Creating wireless networks in our schools is a key strategy for providing greater access to digital curricular resources and instructional technology directly in our classrooms. We may be able to offset some of the impact of this cut on wireless networks installations by delaying some software upgrades and equipment replacements, but this will be limited and will have its own implications on  schools.

Where would you like to see these funds go? Tell us in the comments.