Advocates and a group of Baltimore lawmakers are calling on Gov. Larry Hogan to restore roughly $140 million in education funding, saying the cuts severely impact Baltimore City and Prince George’s County, two districts serving large populations of minority students.
The governor’s budget for Fiscal Year 2023 includes $8.15 billion for K-12 education, which he claims is “$151 million above the legislature’s statutory funding formulas.”
But a January fiscal briefing from the non-partisan Department of Legislative Services found the budget leaves out $99 million in grants for Baltimore City and $26.5 million in grants for Prince George’s County, plus an additional $14.2 million for support and training programs outlined in the Blueprint For Maryland’s Future, also known as the Kirwan bill.
Under the law, the state is supposed to provide additional funding to low-income districts through what’s called an Education Effort Adjustment, the Maryland Alliance for Racial Equity in Education said Wednesday.
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