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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Franchot Goes Ballistic Over $1M School Aid Study By Denver Firm

The Board of Public Works approved Wednesday paying $1 million to a Colorado-based contractor that will study whether Maryland schools receive adequate funding.

The irony of this was not lost on Comptroller Peter Franchot, who emphatically protested the decision.

“We’re spending a million dollars of the taxpayers money … to determine whether we’re putting enough money in the classroom for our kids,” Franchot said. “I have visited over 200 schools … I can tell you right now we have a lot of unmet needs in our public schools. I can think of several better things to do with a million dollars than hand it over to an out-of-state consulting firm.”

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By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
jeremy@marylandreporter.com 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

yup, and OweMalley and Kopp smile and say go away Peter, you both us. My god, get rid of the teachers union and allow teachers to be evaluated the same way the rest of us are... weed out the poor performers.

Anonymous said...

The Democratic machine does not like this man, but he is the most practical thinking person in all of state government. No wonder they didn't want to back him for governor.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what politician is lining his pockets with this one.

Anonymous said...

so once again we should be controlling the money school vouchers would give us that power