Community Schools Could Get More Funding

Governor Wes Moore’s ambitious budget announcement for education last week sees a $374 million dollar increase over last year’s funding. Focusing on capital investment, teacher recruitment and retention, and a new academic excellence program, the budget also calls for a significant increase in community schools funding of $572 million. For Allegany County, that would aid in providing more wraparound services to 17 designated community schools…

 

 

“We’ve engaged national experts to build an evidence-based technical assistance network to support our community schools and the goal is to move the needle on chronic absenteeism, academic outcomes and career readiness. These grants will make sure that that work happens.”