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From YouTube: BC Upfront
Description
In Baltimore County Upfront, the County Executive will respond to questions about timely issues that are in the news. In the first broadcast, Smith answers questions regarding funding that Baltimore County will receive from President Obama's stimulus package. The County Executive responded to questions while attending a press conference at Oliver Beach Elementary School with United States Senator Barbara Mikulski this past Friday. Baltimore County Upfront is posted on the county's website, www.baltimorecountymd.gov at the bottom right hand side of the home page.
A
B
I
can
tell
you
that,
thanks
to
Senator
Mikulski's
intervention
and
and
President
Obama's
commitment
to
doing
something
about
our
economic
circumstances,
Baltimore
County
is
going
to
get
about
20
million
dollars
for
special
education
and
title
1
programs,
and
it
is
going
to
have
a
potential
of
a
very
positive
impact
on
education
in
Baltimore
County.
It
can
be
used.
Obviously
the
school
system
is
going
to
have
to,
but
take
a
look
at
it,
but
it
is
for
such
things
as
professional
development
for
our
teachers.
It
is
for
such
things
as
acquiring
technology
for
school
systems.
B
It's
for
such
things
as
modernization
of
facilities
in
a
wiring
lighting,
those
kinds
of
things-
and
you
put
those
three
together.
You
can
enhance
the
delivery
of
curriculum
with
new
technology,
making
certain
that
your
infrastructure
in
your
school
is
adequate
to
handle
it
and
that
your
teachers
are
prepared
to
use
it.
So
all
three
of
those
things
are
really
necessary
to
take
full
advantage
of
the
stimulus
and
and
and
I'm
hopeful
that
that's
what
will
happen
in
education
in
Baltimore
County
with
the
money
that
we're
we're
going
to
receive.
Okay,.
A
B
Update
is
that
the
stabilization
education,
Stabilization
Fund
is
going
to
be
used
by
the
governor
to
eliminate
the
proposed
cuts
in
his
2010
budget,
which
is
very,
very
important,
means
GCE,
I
is
going
to
be
funded.
Teacher
pensions
are
going
to
be
the
state's
going
to
fund
the
teacher
pensions.
The
one
percent
supplemental
part
of
the
Thornton
fund
funding
formula
is
reinstated
and
the
non-public
school
placements
will
continue
with
a
eighty
percent
state
responsibility.
Twenty
percent
local
responsibility,
as
opposed
to
the
fifty-fifty
that
was
proposed
in
the
2010
budget
by
the
governor.