MoCo Sends Officers To Help Baltimore Police — Montgomery County Police on Monday sent about 40 officers to help Baltimore City Police respond to the protests and rioting that broke out on the day of Freddie Gray’s funeral. Montgomery County Police sent command staff, medics, supervisors and special event response team officers. [Bethesda Magazine]
Van Hollen Calls On Hogan To Release Education Funding — Rep. Chris Van Hollen on Monday called on Gov. Larry Hogan to spend more than $68 million in education funding for the state’s largest and most expensive school systems. Van Hollen made the comments at an event in which many state legislators endorsed his Senate campaign. [Washington Post]
Think Tank: Purple Line Report Is Hogwash — The Manhattan Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, took aim at a Purple Line economic report paid for in part by Montgomery County and released last week. The report boasts of the major economic benefits that will come as a result of building the 16-mile light rail. But Diana Furchtgott-Roth writes “it is impossible from the report to reconstruct any of the empirical results.” [Manhattan Institute]
MCPS Raises Activity Fee — The Board of Education on Monday voted to raise the school system’s Extracurricular Activity Fee to $32.50 a year from $30 a year. MCPS estimates the increase will generate about $30,000 in additional funding for after-school programs and related bus costs. [Montgomery Community Media]
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