Read these: Maryland Matters Article | Blueprint for MD
In short: Maryland is increasing state funding for education to 26 million specifically for “higher education” which includes technical schools and apprenticeship. There is no clarity with how to spend the funds or where it’s being designated, which is a good opportunity for Double M Studios to secure a multi-year contract with Montgomery County Public Schools, and ambitiously the rest of the Maryland (State Government).
- MCPS/Maryland pays us to teach and train their students, we prepare to send them to Omega Recording Studios as productive students with a steep discount, we hire the students after their completion of Omega’s program, and we profit throughout the process.
- Improved example: If tuition is 40k per student, we keep the 30k to pay for their tuition as a grant or whatever.
- Two of the committee’s main Blueprint priorities are to increase the number of apprenticeships to 60,000 in seven years and to ensure at least 45% of high school students complete a high-school level apprenticeship program by the 2030-31 school year. According to the committee’s document, which was submitted earlier this year to the Blueprint board, as of 2021 nearly 4,100 high school graduates completed a youth apprenticeship or earned an industry-recognized credential. — Link
- President Clarence Crawford said he supported Ferguson’s bill but asked for amendments … to include … digital learning.
- The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future is a 10-year plan that would expand pre-kindergarten programs, increase funding for schools with high concentrations of poverty, increase pay and career opportunities for teachers, and create new career pathways for high schoolers who don’t plan to attend college.
- Nearly one-quarter of Maryland’s budget is allocated for education, which is the largest portion of the state budget, Washington said in a committee hearing earlier this month. “It’s crucial that we have checks and balances to make sure that no one branch of government has too much say in how the money is spent.”