Improving and expanding public schools took priority over libraries, prisons and affordable housing in the Anne Arundel County Council?s version of the proposed fiscal 2009 budget.

“We took a budget that was not focused on top priorities and turned it into the biggest success in recent history,” said Councilman Jamie Benoit, D-District 4.

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