For the second year running, legislation requiring all Maryland districts to start school after Labor Day has failed to make it out of committee.
In a 5-5 vote of the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, with one absence, SB767 was given an unfavorable review, labeling the bill as nonviable and making it nearly impossible for it to proceed to a full vote of the senate.
This committee also killed a proposed exemption for Worcester County for providing recycling containers and services to special events held on public property earlier this session.
“We had an excellent hearing. We had an array of supporters from across the state. The vote total, speaking for itself, is a gain from last year,” Sen. Jim Mathias, primary sponsor of the bill, said.
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PUBLISHERS NOTES: Clearly Mathias doesn't have the political influence the Eastern Shore needs. His statement speaks just like a typical Liberal.
3 comments:
While I do think no school should start before Labor Day I am also a believer in schools being governed on a local level. For the state to involve themselves in schools' affairs is wrong.
Liberal Jim fails again.
"Liberal Jim's" proposed bill was a grab for more state control, which belongs at the local level. Why any red-blooded conservative would be in favor of ceding additional control to Annapolis is beyond me. You should add "in name only" to your voter registration card, or better yet show your true color and change to demo-commie. We in Worcester can start school when we want without the Governor or legislature telling us!!!
As far as the second part of the bill, why on earth should Worcester be exempt from recycling regulations. Our beaches are messy enough now, we don't to support the littering by the 'come-here's' who don't care what it looks like here 51 weeks of the year. Make those lefties from the Western shore practice what they preach - recycle their fancy $3 water bottles and keep our Worcester County clean.
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