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Session Notes
Carozza provides updates on pending sponsored legislation
(Feb. 9, 2018) Delegate Mary Beth Carozza has been tracking several bills since the start of the session last month, and provided an update on the status of some of her priority projects.
For Ocean City, Carozza has been pursuing three areas of interest. First, she is working to delay the accrual of paid sick time for certain employees, next, she is working to move offshore wind turbines farther from shore, and finally she is working to establish a special events zone in the resort.
School Funding
Carozza attends Kirwan Commission meeting
(Jan. 26, 2018) Del. Mary Beth Carozza attended a briefing this past week from the Kirwan Commission, which is expected to deliver a recommendation concerning statewide funding of public schools at the end of the session, prepared for members of the ...
Educational Consortium requests legislative initiatives
ANNAPOLIS — Superintendent of Talbot County Public Schools and current academic year President of the Eastern Shore of Maryland’s Educational Consortium Kelly Griffith presented to the Eastern Shore Delegation Feb. 9 in Annapolis.
Griffith along with the nine superintendents from the Eastern Shore school districts requested the support of their six legislative initiatives. Funding, capital projects, technology, assessments, local control, and teacher shortages are the top priorities facing the school districts on the Shore, Griffith said.