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Bill expands maintenance of efforts to other county services

March 22, 2013 Maryland Reporter

Expanding on last year’s Maintenance of Effort requirements mandating counties’ levels of funding for K-12 education, Montgomery County senators are seeking to establish similar requirements for county critical services throughout the state. Representatives of county governments think it’s a bad idea.

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Teacher pension shift would cost counties $500 million over next four years

March 9, 2012March 12, 2012 Maryland Reporter

In the Senate’s proposed budget plan, some of the costs of teacher retirement would be shifted to county school boards over the next four years, not to the county governments next year, as Gov. Martin O’Malley had proposed. But the approved proposal would ultimately force counties to give their school boards $500 million more over the next four years.