The obsession with window air conditioning in Baltimore county and city
public schools by Comptroller Peter Franchot, joined of late by Gov. Larry Hogan,
is no longer amusing. On Wednesday, their heavy-handed tactics to force
local officials to immediately install window units in some 4,000
classrooms went beyond political grandstanding into the realm of doing
real damage to students and to a system of making hard choices on how to
allocate limited funds that has long served the state well. The
governor and comptroller decided to hold back $10 million to renovate
county schools and $5 million for city schools
unless city and county officials do something that is probably
impossible, possibly illegal and certainly fiscally wasteful. In the
process, they disrespected the Baltimore County superintendent, smeared
the integrity of the attorney general and his staff, bullied the
treasurer and prompted the man who has guided the state's school
construction program for 13 years to resign. It was ugly, unbecoming and
ultimately unproductive...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-air-conditioning-20160512-story.html
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