State Funding Per Pupil The state’s per-pupil funding for Talbot County Public Schools increased 49% between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2024. That’s the largest increase among all 24 Maryland public school districts. Per-pupil funding is based on a formula that…
Behind the Blueprint: Somerset County
State Funding Per Pupil The state’s per-pupil funding for Somerset County Public Schools increased 36.1% between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2024. That’s the 12th largest increase among all 24 Maryland public school districts. Per-pupil funding is based on a formula…
Behind the Blueprint: Baltimore City
State Funding Per Pupil The state’s per-pupil funding for Baltimore City Public Schools increased 34.6% between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2024. That’s the tenth smallest increase among all 24 Maryland public school districts. Per-pupil funding is based on a formula…
Behind the Blueprint: Calvert County
State Funding Per Pupil The state’s per-pupil funding for Calvert County Public Schools increased 38.9% between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2024 That’s the sixth-largest increase among all 24 Maryland public school districts. Per-pupil funding is based on a formula that…
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The Local News Network at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism spent six months developing “Behind the Blueprint.” LNN Director Jerry Zremski coordinated the project and served as its lead editor. Other editors on the project were Capital News Service…
Potential restrictions on ticket scalping spur controversy in Maryland capital
Season-ticket holders are pushing back against an anti-scalping bill in the Maryland General Assembly they say would harm their right to transfer tickets and make a profit when they miss a game.
States, industry urge Supreme Court to dump air pollution rule
The federal “good neighbor” rule, part of the Clean Air Act, imposes strict pollution limits on upwind states, as their smog and fine particles travel to the East Coast downwind states, including Maryland.
Despite efforts to remove them, Confederates and segregationists live on in Capitol statues
Reminders of the oppression that African Americans suffered are still on display in the United States Capitol, taking the form of 12 statues of figures affiliated with the Confederate States of America and post-Civil War segregation.
Biden administration readies new sanctions against Russia, urges House to pass Ukraine aid
The Biden administration is preparing a new package of sanctions against Russia to be unveiled. A move to hold Vladimir Putin responsible for the recent death of Alexei Navalny and the two-year war against Ukraine.
As Assange faces extradition to US, experts see threats to press freedom
As Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team makes its last appeal to prevent an extradition to the United States over Espionage Act charges, press freedom experts said they are concerned about how the this case could harm journalists’ First Amendment rights.