Has throwing money at our education system helped it?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/maryland-override-hogan-kirwan-veto/2021/02/08/526752a4-6a2a-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html Has throwing money at our education system helped it? Instead of holding schools accountable and allowing for competition within the school system, Maryland’s General assembly decided to raise taxes on citizens and throw money at the schools. This bill was passed over a year ago…have we seen improvement in our school systems? When will we be allowed to try a new strategy or even discuss looking at the situation from a different angle? Direct Quotes: a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the state’s public education system and two taxes that would help pay for the restructuring: a tax on digital streaming and a first-in-the-nation tax on digital ads. The bill would set in place a 10-year plan to expand prekindergarten; increase funding to schools with a high percentage of poor, special-education or limited-English students; raise teacher pay and incr...