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Eric Hartley: Lesson plan: Money isn't only answerPublished 05/11/08
In the past two years, County Executive John Leopold has proposed increasing school funding by $57 million and $48 million, a total of $105 million.
At various times, school officials have called these spending hikes a broken promise and a moral failing - and, in the oddest turn of phrase, compared them with getting a pogo stick instead of the Chrysler they asked for even though they really need a Mercedes. (Got that?)
"Today, all of our fears have been realized," a school system spokesman said earlier this month, setting the sort of ominous tone one might expect from a TV movie about a nuclear holocaust. The comment...
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school budget - May 18, 2008
Montgomery county will spend more than $14,400 per student next, not $12500 which Mr. Hartley stated.
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