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Beyond the Thornton Commission Proposal

By Dan Lips
Published on Monday, May 17, 2004
MARYLAND POLICY REPORT

In 2002, the Maryland General Assembly approved Senate Bill 856, requiring the state to provide an additional $1.1 billion for public education by 2008. The legislation formally committed the state to the proposal by the Thornton Commission on Education Finance, Equity and Excellence to boost the amount of per-pupil state aid to education from $3,500 to more than $5,600—an increase of 63 percent.1 The following year, new governor Robert Ehrlich’s office submitted the first budget to include funding for the Thornton proposal.

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