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Educators Advance Pro-Public Education Policies During General Assembly Session

Gov. Hogan Out of Excuses for Shortchanging Maryland Schools Educators played a central role in the 2015 Maryland General Assembly session, leading the fight to continue a strong state commitment to public schools, defending accountability and quality in Maryland’s charter school law, preventing a discriminatory and unaccountable voucher scheme, and taking a significant step forward […]

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Educators: Still Time for Gov. Hogan to Do the Right Thing

The following statement is attributed to Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association: “Inexplicably, Gov. Hogan appears prepared to punish Maryland’s public schools and our students as revenge for not getting his way on his initiatives, including a misguided voucher scheme to send $5 million in public funds to private schools. Despite overwhelming, […]

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Educators Celebrate School Funding Law’s Enactment, Now Focused on Passing New Funding Formula

Bipartisan Blueprint Legislation Passed With Support of Majority of Republican Legislators This afternoon, Gov. Hogan allowed SB 1030, legislation to begin implementing the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, to go into law without his signature. He also released $255 million in additional education funding passed in a bipartisan budget. That funding is the first part of […]

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Educators Call Gov. Hogan’s Grandstanding “Incredibly Disappointing”

Annapolis, Maryland – Earlier today, Gov. Larry Hogan proposed his third supplemental budget without restoring funding for Maryland’s public schools. Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA), made the following statement: “Gov. Hogan is growing increasingly out-of-touch with the people he is supposed to represent. Educators, students, and parents have been pleading […]
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Gov. Hogan Holds Nearly $70 Million for Public Schools Hostage

Annapolis, Maryland — MSEA President Betty Weller made the following statement on Gov. Larry Hogan’s supplemental budget: “When it comes to our public schools, Gov. Hogan still doesn’t get it. He began his term by cutting $144 million in school funding only to be met with criticism from educators, parents, students, business leaders, school boards, superintendents, […]

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Educator Mobilization Leads to Momentum on School Funding Restoration

Annapolis, Maryland — Starting with a radio advertising campaign and online petition drive in January, and continuing with the launch of DontShortchangeMaryland.com in early February, the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) and its members have led a session-long campaign to protect the investment in Maryland schools and restore the education cuts proposed by Gov. Hogan. “The […]

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Educators Urge Passage of House Budget Plan

MSEA President Betty Weller made the following statement on the House Appropriations Committee’s budget plan:  “Maryland legislators have two very distinct options for the state’s future. On one side, Gov. Hogan’s plan would cut $144 million from Maryland’s public schools, shortchanging our children and their future by overcrowding their classrooms and slashing instructional programs. On […]

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Gov. Hogan’s State of the State

A Call for Disinvestment in Maryland’s Public Schools As if cutting Maryland’s schools by $144 million next year isn’t enough, Gov. Hogan has now decided to support policies that would further harm our world-class public education system. In state after state, we have seen voucher schemes and the lowering of standards for the opening and […]
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MSEA Statement on Gov. Hogan's Budget

The following statement can be attributed to Maryland State Education Association President Betty Weller: “Larry Hogan campaigned on the need to change Maryland, but his budget shortchanges Maryland’s students and schools. Gov. Hogan’s education cuts threaten the progress of our top-notch public schools, which are at the heart of what makes Maryland attractive to businesses […]
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