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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wish people would realize teachers unions have relatively little power in Maryland because it’s a “right to fire” state.

Maryland needs universal pre-K but at this rate it will never happen. [/quote]

No, it won’t because we simply can’t afford it.  We are going to have no choice but to cut a lot of government programs/services.  It sure isn’t the time to add a very large expense.  And ignoring expense, at a time when we are trying to create greater space in schools, adding one or two more grades would have the exact opposite result of making schools far more crowded.[/quote]

If you think universal pre-K is expensive, only imagine how expensive it is to NOT have universal pre-K.[/quote]

Seriously. MoCo is one of the richest counties in the country. Saying we can’t afford it is ridiculous. [b]Figure it out.[/b][/quote]

Figure it out.  Says someone who clearly has no idea of finances.

The state and county have had budget problems annually.  The state has a legal requirement that the school budget goes up a certain amount every year and even that is difficult to include, but must due to the law.  Now, we have the state shutdown for a minimum of two months.  There are a ton of small businesses that have or will go out of business before being allowed to reopen that will not be paying business taxes.  The tourism industry which brings in hundreds of millions of dollars of sales taxes is closed and not generating tax revenue.  A record number of residents are unemployed and we are paying out UI and not taking in any income tax from them.    The state has invested virtually all of its reserves for pandemic response including setting up the field hospital in the Baltimore Convention Center, another in the government owned hotel next door (which is not taking in any revenue as it is closed), paying for the test kits from S Korea, and so on.  Now, thanks to the efforts of the NIMBYs, the purple line contractors are pulling out and the state is going to have to invest more money into either wooing them back (which is probably the cheapest option), getting bids and hiring new contractors (which will cost the government more than negotiating with the current contractors) or stopping the work, in which case we will owe a HUGE amount back to the federal government.  The money that came from the federal DOT has to be paid back if the project is not completed.

The state is going to have to make sweeping cuts across the board due to the huge loss of revenue.  The Kirwin recommendations are estimated to cost about $4B annually for 8 years for a total of $32B.  You think the state has $4B hidden in a secret bank account somewhere that they have been hiding just to be able to afford  a luxury such as school budget increases?

You are completely ignorant about the state finances and you have your head stuck in the ground like an ostrich if you think there is a way to figure out adding $4B to the state budget for the next 8 years when we are facing a historic drop in tax revenue.  [/quote]

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