ANNAPOLIS – Prekindergarten in Maryland will expand to include an additional 1,600 students across the state, after final passage Friday by the General Assembly.
Gov. Martin O’Malley included $4.3 million to fund the expansion in his fiscal 2015 budget, and he is expected to sign the measure into law.
The bill establishes a competitive grant program that will expand voluntary half or full day pre-K to four-year-olds from households that make less than 300 percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, or $70,650 for a family of four.
The measure passed by lawmakers also makes an appropriation mandatory starting fiscal 2016
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5 comments:
if you can not afford to pay for the rearing of children..then don't have any!
I (a taxpayer) can not afford to support yours and mine!
Amen ^^ Bush'man! I am sick of paying for other peoples mistakes.
That's stupid. Divide 1600 into 4.3 million! I can not afford this kind of stupid spending. Democrats are out of control. No Democrat will ever see a vote from me again.
The importance a culture places on education has much more to do with achievement than stop gap measures by government. Folks who don't speak English and have little money are doing better than many of our entitled citizens.
Indoctrination is starting at an early age
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