Monday, October 21, 2019

There’s good reason for jitters about Maryland’s massive school spending plan

MUCH OF Maryland’s political establishment, meaning Democrats who dominate the General Assembly in Annapolis, embraced the recommendations of a commission that urged massive new spending on the state’s generally lackluster public schools. As the dollars and cents come into sharper focus, however, some lawmakers may be blanching — and if they’re not, their local counterparts on county councils certainly are.
A proposed formula that would apportion some $4 billion in new annual spending by 2030 — the amount endorsed by the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education — has produced jitters in parts of the state. Democrats in Baltimore and some counties have balked at the prospect of major increases in public school funding — read: higher taxes — to supplement new state spending...

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