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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, but Hogan is trying to get a referendum vote on the ballot. Current estimates are that 70% of residents favor the Governor's XO vs the school district calendars and a referendum will override the legislature. [/quote]

So how does a referendum in MD work? Do voters need to come out for a special vote? Is the measured tabled until the next election cycle in 2020 and it becomes a ballot measure?

70% of residents may favor the Gov's plan BUT its the school unions that are against it. They will be handing out Apple ballots to everyone without kids telling them teachers don't want the gov's plan (regardless of whether teachers want it or not).

The labor unions in MD are like the NRA -it often doesn't matter what 70%-90% of the citizens actually want. [/quote]

Pretty much everyone I know in MoCo hates the Hogan calendar.  It's the Ocean City people who like using the school calendar as a form of corporate welfare to their beach resorts.[/quote]

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