Critics protest Hogan's education budget cuts in Maryland

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan's proposed funding for education threatens to create larger classrooms and cut teaching jobs, opponents of the plan said Tuesday — but Hogan's budget secretary said the Republican governor is open to dialogue about how to address tough financial choices his administration inherited.
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Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association, said Hogan's budget plan amounts to roughly $144 million in reductions to K-12.

"Governor Hogan campaigned to change Maryland, but unfortunately his budget is going to shortchange Maryland," said Weller, who heads a teachers' union representing 71,000 teachers and education support professionals across the state. "His education cuts would be felt in every classroom across the state."

The union has launched a website to enable residents to see how the budget plan would affect local jurisdictions.


Read more: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/02/website-shows-impact-of-hogan-s-education-budget-plan-for-maryland-111147.html

[DebJ]

1. Same thing the last Republican governor of Maryland did. Always the first priority:

cut education, dumb them down. And there was no budget crisis that I recall back then.

All Maryland's Republican governors have been horrible. At least the last one was just horrible.
The one's before that were actually CROOKS, got disbarred, etc.

[elleng]

2. Yes, right, its always a high priority of theirs,

dumb them down, and, mostly in MD anyway, not entirely successful, but ELSEWHERE, What a MESS we've got!!!