Day: January 9, 2014

Common Core generates bill to drop old tests in Md. public schools

Common Core generates bill to drop old tests in Md. public schools

Emergency legislation to stop Maryland from administering a federally mandated student assessment test was introduced Thursday in the House of Delegates with strong bipartisan sponsorship.

The Maryland Student Assessment test (MSA) is slated to be phased out after this year, when it will be administered once more this spring. But the test is considered outdated because it doesn’t test for what students are learning in classrooms this year under the state’s new Common Core education curriculum.

Assembly leaders agree on cutting estate taxes

Democratic leaders have agreed to reduce Maryland’s high estate tax by recoupling it to federal standards for taxing a dead person’s assets. The “death tax” is considered one of the reasons that wealthy retirees choose to leave Maryland for states with lower taxes.

State Roundup, January 9, 2014

Maryland schools are no longer No. 1; O’Malley comes out forcefully against legalization of marijuana; GOP lawmakers eye repealing the rain tax, stopping minimum wage hike; shore lawmakers concerned with economic, agricultural issues; O’Malley, others also to push for minimum wage hike; anti-fracking activists protest on opening day of session; Senate, House leadership re-elected – again; O’Malley spearheads governors’ request for extending federal emergency unemployment benefits; and transparency becomes an issue in Chestertown.

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