Day: February 17, 2011

Blog: Slaves and Indians: Senators share history in immigration debate

During hours of testimony and discussion about a bill that would allow illegal immigrants living in Maryland qualify for in-state tuition to state colleges and universities on Wednesday, two senators gave brief lessons in history and genealogy.

Sen. Joanne Benson, a Prince George’s County Democrat and retired educator, took on the role of a teacher once again. After a panel of community college administrators and clergy had finished testifying, she quizzed them on the settlement of Jamestown, Va. in 1607, and Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas in 1492.

State Roundup, February 17, 2011

Young immigrants offer emotional appeals for in-state college tuition bill; O’Malley defends high-tech startup fund before House and Senate panels; House hearing on gay marriage set for next Friday; meanwhile Sen. Currie says he’ll vote against bill; Franchot blasts Ed Dept over cost estimates of his financial literacy curriculum; opposition mounts to septic system curbs; Harford Dems reject seat on GOP districting panel; and Prince George’s residents grow weary of county reputation.

Blog: Educators inflated cost of financial literacy requirement, Franchot claims

State Comptroller Peter Franchot had some tough words for the state Department of Education, which said his proposal for a financial literacy course in all high schools would cost $16 million to implement.
“The state bureaucracy spiked this thing,” Franchot told reporters at a news conference before a hearing on the bill. “It’s a phony fiscal note.”

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