Lawmakers Promise Funding - Now and in the Future - At 'March for Our Schools'
The sea of red shirts stretched down the boulevard leading to Maryland’s State House, eventually packed in to stretch from the corner of the tax collector’s office and across the bridge over College Creek.
Maryland teachers, students and parents – an estimated 8,500 of them – descended on Annapolis for the “March for Our Schools” on Monday night, the same evening the House of Delegates got a first look at a 2020 budget proposal that includes more than $7 billion for public education.
House Appropriations Chair Del. Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore City) said it’s the largest allocation for public education in state history. On the floor of the House of Delegates, she called it a “bill for the children.”
McIntosh also addressed the throngs outside the State House. She said the House’s $320 million down-payment for recommendations of the Kirwan Commission was “a small step, but a step forward.”
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