Maryland House of Delegates votes to increase school funding by $700M over two years
Maryland delegates voted Thursday to approve a two-year plan to send more than $700 million in extra funding to the state’s public schools.
The House of Delegates voted 112-22 in favor of the bill, called the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future,” which already passed the Senate by a vote of 43-1.
“It’s a tremendous, tremendous first step,” said Del. Maggie McIntosh, a Baltimore Democrat who sits on the so-called Kirwan Commission, which is studying how best to improve Maryland’s schools. “The goal of Kirwan is for us to have the best educational system in the country and for us to close the achievement gap.”
McIntosh said $52 million in the first year of funding from the bill will go to Baltimore public schools.
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