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Analysts say Thornton funding helps students make progress
- A consulting firm contracted to evaluate the effects of the educational funding program known as Thornton painted a rosy picture of improvement before state lawmakers Thursday.
Report: Most education funds go to teachers
- Teachers continue to win big with Thornton education funding, with school districts spending an additional $1.85 billion on salaries and benefits compared with seven years ago, a new report shows.
Report: Majority of funding for education goes to teachers’ salaries
- Teachers continue to win big with Thornton education funding, with school districts spending an additional $1.85 billion on salaries and benefits compared with seven years ago, a new report shows.
Legislators take stance opposing new taxes
- Anne Arundel County voters are telling their state legislators that they don’t want any new taxes, which could complicate an already tenuous special session next week.
ACLU asks O'Malley to fully fund Thornton
- The ACLU pleaded with Gov. Martin O’Malley on Wednesday to not slash $200 million from the state’s landmark school-funding plan.
O’Malley plans to freeze Thornton funding
- After a week rolling out a series of tax increases and cuts, Gov. Martin O’Malley told a roomful of officials late Thursday that he would close a $1.7 billion budget deficit next year and beyond by freezing Thornton school aid funding, saving $400 million over the next two years.
- After a week rolling out a series of tax increases and cuts, Gov. Martin O’Malley told a roomful of officials late Thursday that he would close a $1.7 billion budget deficit next year and beyond by freezing Thornton school aid funding, saving $400 million over the next two years.
Why spend more on failed Thornton investment?
- Here’s the billion-dollar question for Maryland educators: How can you justify spending another $1.3 billion during a budget crisis when the $3.5 billion you’ve already spent under the 2002 Thornton Act has yielded such disappointing results? A comprehensive statistical analysis of Maryland public school performance data conducted for The Examiner Newspapers by the Heritage Foundation’s respected Center for Data Analysis found that academic gains for minority and disadvantaged students have not kept up with higher per-pupil expenditures since 2002. Closing this persistent gap was supposed to be a primary goal of Thornton funding.
Editorial: Scores fail cost effectiveness test
- If Maryland education were a student bringing home a report card like the latest achievement test results, we the taxpayer parents would not write another tuition check. State educators can’t check the “shows marked improvement” box.
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