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November 5, 2007

What classrooms would get in O'Malley's budget package

As I reported in my story today, much of the 1 percent funding increase that Gov. O’Malley has promised to schools in his budget package would be spent on teacher pensions. Direct classroom aid would be virtually flat or even decline slightly. Thirteen districts could receive more money from the geographic cost-of-living index, which O'Malley says he wants to fund, but that’s not guaranteed in the language of the legislation.

According to the fiscal note attached to the governor's bill, here's the direct aid that Baltimore-area jurisdictions would receive before the geographic index.

Anne Arundel County: $266.2 million this year, $264.5 million next year 
Baltimore City: $832.7 million this year, $833.3 million next year
Baltimore County: $509.5 million this year, $510.3 million next year 
Carroll County: $141.1 million this year, $140.8 million next year 
Harford County: $207.1 million this year, $206.3 million next year
Howard County: $183.3 million this year, $185.7 million next year
Statewide total: $4.60 billion this year, $4.64 billion next year 

Posted by Sara Neufeld at 6:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Categories: Around the Region, School Finance
        

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