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By Bob Allen | March 21, 2013
Acknowledging the sparse turn-out of about a dozen residents at his March 18 Town Hall Community Meeting at the South Carroll Senior Center, in Eldersburg, County Commissioner Doug Howard jokingly confessed that he'd considered ways to drum up more excitement for the Monday evening session. "I asked Commissioner (Richard) Rothschild to come debate me on education, but that didn't work out," Howard said, referring to his fellow commissioner from District 4 who advocates for cuts to the county school budget that Howard opposes.
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By Diane Mullaly | May 15, 1991
50 Years Ago (week of May 11-17, 1941):* The Howard County Boardof Education presented the largest public school budget in county history to the Board of Commissioners this week. The budget totaled $263,470, $22,000 of which was designated for an addition to the West Friendship School. The total allotment for teachers' salaries for the 1941-1942 school year was $145,200. The budget also provided for an increase in the salary of the superintendent of schools, from $3,040 to$3,300.25 Years Ago (week of May 8-14, 1966)
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February 25, 1994
Let's see if we have this straight. The Baltimore County Board of Education has approved a fiscal 1995 budget that asks the county government to provide $46 million more than it did for the current school budget. At the same time, the County Council has adopted a spending limit that holds the jurisdiction's entire 1995 budget growth to no more than $41 million.You get the feeling that something's going to give here?Bet on it. County Executive Roger Hayden has already begun sharpening his ax in preparation for taking a whack at this school budget.
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By From staff reports Larry Carson, Monica Norton, Norris P. West and Bruce Reid contributed to this story | January 29, 1991
The process hasn't been pretty: Local school superintendents make sizable budget requests each winter, politicians who hold the purse strings charge fiscal gluttony and slash the schools' requests. Educators and some parents counter that the leaders are insensitive to education.It may get even uglier this year.After years of revenue gains, suburban government officials are grappling with flat budget growth or even projected deficits in a recession. Their patience for requests for more money from various departments will be slimmer than ever, they have indicated.
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By Howard Libit and Howard Libit,Sun Staff Writer | June 2, 1995
The Howard County school board approved a $230.2 million operating budget yesterday that falls 2 percent short of what it had requested to run the school system next year.Although the budget will be almost $13 million more than for the current school year, the board still was forced to make more than $4 million in cuts to many items intended to handle the county's exploding student enrollment -- including additional staffing, new textbooks and an expanded monitoring program for underachieving black students.
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By Suzanne Loudermilk and Suzanne Loudermilk,Staff Writer | January 30, 1994
Parents in Harford County came to a public hearing on the proposed $184 million school budget looking for a faster route to the information highway.They expressed concerns about incompatible computer software programs, a lack of computer teachers and the need for computer technicians at Monday's meeting.Their pleas did not go unheeded."The theme is to pay more attention to technology," said Ronald R. Eaton, school board vice president.Other board members supported him."There is a necessity of having a [technology]