Education

Education, Environment, Economic Development:

Submitted by admin on October 21, 2006 - 2:04pm.

Education

I know first-hand how important education is: I returned to undergraduate studies as an adult and graduated from Hood College at the age of 30. I earned my MBA with at 44 with two kids and a very challenging full-time job.

Yet, I’m worried that our children are not being served well by overcrowded schools. It just seems wrong that in a county where the median home price is $310,000, so many children sit in portable classrooms. Moreover, too many schools are falling apart for lack of funds.

Throughout my tenure in Annapolis, I worked collaboratively with other Appropriations Committee members to achieve an historic 75% increase in K-12 public school operating funds for the state.