Marylanders are willing to pay more for public education, but are largely unaware of a reform effort that would dramatically boost state education spending, according to polling from Goucher College.
About 70 percent of Maryland adults say the state spends too little on public education – and 74 percent of those reached by the most recent Goucher Poll said they would be willing to personally spend more to improve schools.
But only about 22 percent of those polled said they were aware of the work of the Kirwan Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, which has rolled out a decade-long reform plan that could cost about $3.8 billion more each year once fully implemented. Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) has expressed concerns about the cost of the plan, referring to a funding workgroup as the Kirwan Tax Hike Commission in public statements, though the panel’s role is not to change state tax rates.
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10 comments:
when the casinos were built in Md, they said those revenues would go to education and the schools. Was that another lie and were does the revenue go?
There is too little public oversight on the money spent.
Lack of money is not the issue in most schools. Lack of discipline and liberal indoctrination is the downfall of our once great education system.
POLL SCHMOLL!
NO, we're NOT! We're even willing to pay for private education also to save OUR CHILDREN from FEDED propaganda!
As long as the Educational systems teach indoctrination instead of the basics, reading writing arithmetic and history. I refuse to give any more to the educational system.I would pay more if there was an accountability of the money. Teachers and BOE should be mandated to have curriculums that enforce teaching and not indoctrination.
Just like your road taxes, it all ended up in the general fund to be spent as the politicians want.
I am not willing to pay more for illegal students in our schools. those kids have parents.
Just like the Thornton Commission,which failed education for Maryland, you just have to look at one word, "Union". Kirwan, like Thornton will increase pay for the upper administration union members and very little will go towards the 1-5 year teacher. As for the so called Lock Box of funds for education, kiss it good bye. It will go to the general fund to make for for "Structural Deficit items.
Says WHO?? No I don't. It's because of the FAILED MARYLAND EDUCATION SYSTEM I put my kids in private school.
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