Maryland officials voted Wednesday to spend an additional $161.5 million on school construction projects, bringing the total to $349.2 million for the upcoming school year.

That’s a 32 percent bump over the current fiscal year, for which the Maryland Board of Public Works doled out $264.5 million across the state.

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