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Marylanders are willing to pay more for public education, but are largely unaware of a reform effort that would dramatically boost state education spending,…
Members of a state workgroup that has been meeting publicly since June to draw up new state education funding formulas is now getting down…
Dramatic boosts proposed for teacher salaries in Maryland may need to be pared back, some members of a workgroup seeking to rewrite the state’s…
Frustrations boiled over at the start of an education reform meeting in Annapolis on Thursday, following Republican Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s earlier comments…
The 2018 Maryland Association of Counties summer convention carried the title “Water, Water, Everywhere.” And indeed, a primary focus of the sprawling and multi-dimensional…
Three years ago, Allison Heintz was a 4th grade teacher who had never been politically active. Then Donald Trump was elected president. Heintz attended…
A workgroup that will propose new education funding formulas should wrap up work by the send of September, the panel’s chair announced Thursday. The…
Maryland’s big plan for education reform is still in the beginning stages in many ways – funding formulas and a long-term budgetary plan still…
A core group of 13 people will meet over the next several months to recommend new state funding formulas for K-12 public schools. Senate…
Here we go again: The General Assembly took back $100 million that it had in hand to pay for senior state retirees’ prescription drugs….