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January 27, 2009

O'Malley promises more stimulus details

Apparently there's more to say on the federal stimulus package beyond what O'Malley outlined in a press conference yesterday. He's supposed to take another whack at it this afternoon, specifically to talk about the prospective stimulus and the geographic cost of education index, the obscure, never quite funded part of Thornton that ponies up mor emoney for disctricts where the cost of education is higher -- primarily MoCo, PG and Baltimore City. O'Malley made a big stink about Bob Ehrlich's failure to fund the GCEI, but he's never fully done so either. In the current budget, he included a portion of the money, but the administration recently indicated that it might be clawing those funds back from the schools to balance the books.

When he talked yesterday about the $3 billion-plus in federal funds Maryland could get over the next two years, O'Malley was a little vague about the cuts that could be reversed if/when the money comes through, so perhaps he intends to be more specific today. We'll post more details after the news conference at 1.

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