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Article: Prince George's Faces Greater Md. Oversight; Lawmaker Demands Concessions for School Aid
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- The Washington Post
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- October 14, 1997
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A powerful Maryland legislator said yesterday that if Prince
George's County is to receive a major school funding increase, it
must abandon its elected school board, lift its property tax cap,
hold teachers and administrators more accountable and submit to
greater state oversight.
In a letter to Gov. Parris N. Glendening (D), House
Appropriations Chairman Howard P. Rawlings (D-Baltimore) said he had
found "a disturbing pattern" of crowding in some schools in Prince
George's, plus discouraging test scores and unacceptable numbers of
teachers with provisional, rather than full, certification.
He agreed that the county, which hopes to end 25 years of
courtordered busing, deserves ...