Governor Larry Hogan made the tough choice to use the $68 million Maryland’s legislators earmarked for education, not for education! Over $11 million of that money would have gone to Baltimore schools. Governor Hogan called that money “extra money” and put it into the state’s underfunded pensions, saying it would be irresponsible not to.

The money at issue was part of about $200 million that lawmakers set aside for their top priorities — extra school funding, preventing a pay cut for state workers and paying for a range of health-care initiatives that include Medicaid coverage for more pregnant women and funding for heroin addiction.

Governor Larry Hogan made the tough choice to spend $30 million on a 60-bed jail for Baltimore teenagers who have been charged as adults!

The issue was a bigger problem before the rate of […]

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