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Baltimore mayor launches campaign to improve city school facilities
Feb 28, 2012 1:51 PM
From The Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has
introduced a bill to more than double the city's bottle tax as part
of a plan to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to fix
dilapidated school buildings. Store owners and beverage lobbyists
are pushing hard against the proposal, and the chairman of the City
Council committee that must approve the tax says he will delay a
hearing for at least two months.
From The Baltimore Sun: Baltimore City's schools CEO Andres Alonso has proposed borrowing $1.2 billion to pay for a massive and rapid overhaul of the city's crumbling public school buildings. The plan hinges on financial commitments from the state and an increase in the city's bottle tax — both of which could prove tough sells.
