ANNAPOLIS – If Maryland legislators can’t agree to raise taxes in the coming fiscal year, the result likely will be large cuts to education, state Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said Thursday.
The “doomsday” budget proposal — a plan that relies solely on cuts to fill a $1.1 billion budget hole — that Miller, D-Calvert and Prince George’s counties, has promised to bring to the Senate floor will involve the state’s required “Maintenance of Effort” school funding by the counties and a controversial proposal to shift half the cost of teacher pensions to the counties, he said.
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