Gov. Larry Hogan's job is not to fund the "the most popular form of state spending" ("Hogan's choice," May 15)!
He has given $109 million more in education funds to the state for the next fiscal year than former Gov. Martin O'Malley did for the current year. And to my knowledge the city has not satisfactorily addressed the "missing" $60 million to $70 million in this years budget.
I would not give the city one more dollar over this year's funds until it demonstrated financial responsibility for the funds it already gets and shows the improvements that have occurred over the last three years.
Maybe The Sun could do a detailed look at the city's education expenditures — what teachers get paid, how many folks are in the cental administration and what they earn, the nature and scope of the dollars that go to vendors and how much teachers have to pay in union dues from their-hard earned salaries.
Lyle Rescott, Marriottsville