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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