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Opinion
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10/28/09
The governor, reviewing the gloomy prospects for school spending next year, found himself paraphrasing a famous wisecrack by Samuel Johnson: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Find Us On Facebook
What Gov. Martin O'Malley actually told the state's school superintendents, at a meeting in Annapolis last week, was, "There's nothing that focuses the mind like our own execution, is there?" The "execution" he was contemplating is the prospect of cutting a $13 billion state budget to deal with a projected $2 billion...
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Education Budget - 2009-10-28 13:09:07
A simple suggestion for budget cuts in Education. Require that all school districts in Maryland to have the same ratio of "Administrators" to actual teachers as they had in 1950 to qualify for state funds.
The only people upset by this cut, and it would be huge, would the the Education Establishment and not parents or teachers.
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