Anne Arundel County Board of Education members are supporting proposed bills in the General Assembly to fund a robotics grant program, expand the use of a school safety fund and allow exceptions to a wage requirement for school construction.
School board members also are opposing a number of education bills the General Assembly is considering.
The board will share its positions on the bills through written or oral testimony this legislative session.
According to the school board’s list of legislative goals, the board supports bills that provide funding and give it authority over school issues. The board opposes laws that require programs without providing funding, take decision-making power away from local school officials or divert money from public schools to private schools or scholarships.
The board is supporting a bill that requires the governor to include at least $500,000 annually in the state budget to fund the robotics programs in public schools. The proposal currently requires schools to have robotics programs to receive the funding. The board asked legislators to rewrite the bill so it would fund existing and new robotics programs.
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