From Harford County government:
Harford County Executive Barry Glassman today signed documentation certifying that the county’s FY 2020 budget provides Harford County Public Schools with $10.7 million to raise teacher salaries, an amount that qualifies the school system to receive an additional state “Kirwan” grant. The certification is required under the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future legislation. As a result of the increased county funds, supplemented by the grant, all HCPS classroom teachers will receive an average salary increase of 5% at the start of the upcoming school year. Without a sufficient increase in the county budget, HCPS would have been ineligible for the grant. County funding for school system operations totals more than $256 million for FY 2020.
Teacher salaries are negotiated between the school board and HCEA, the teachers’ bargaining unit. According to their negotiated salary schedules, effective July 1, 2019, salary increases for all classroom teachers will range between 4.43% and 5.53%, depending on their location on the pay scale. Increases for 11-month school psychologists will reach as high as 11.15%. Per an agreement between County Executive Glassman and the schools’ superintendent, $650,000 of county funding will support school psychologists and mental wellness in HCPS. All other HCPS employees will also receive salary increases ranging from 2.5% to 7.5%, depending on their bargaining unit and other factors.
County Executive Glassman has directed funding to raise teacher salaries in each of the five years of his administration. By May 2020, all HCPS employees, including teachers, will be caught up on multiple salary step increases they missed prior to the Glassman administration. Employees who are owed final make-up steps will receive these additional increases in April and May of the upcoming school year.
WOW how generous of Barry 5% with all that extra cash every week those teachers can go see a movie. What was the county counsels raise again? Oh yea 20%
Inasmuch as the public school industry has so completely failed in its primary mission of teaching children the basics of survival in our society, this raise and all support to the system is misplaced.
A completely uninformed comment.
Of course, Bob. When you disagree with a statement denigrate the person Our education industry has failed. Our graduates rank so far below the rest of the western world in knowledge and ability that we should be classed as a third world country. Our teachers are taught by left wing hacks and we expect them to be able to honestly help our youth. JOKE!
You remain uninformed.
Bob’s so good at explaining your uninformed status he could be a teacher
@ Daddy rabbit
Isn’t the teaching the basics of survival of society the parent’s job?
Basics of survival in today’s society include manners, respect for elders, learning how to live within one’s means, balancing a checkbook, and learning how to budget. This is not the school’s job.
Now, if you are also considering the basics of survival to be basic math skills, reading, writing, and general knowledge, you are placing the blame on the wrong set of people. Most of the teachers I know are doing their jobs, teaching their subject matter to the best of their ability, but they are hamstrung by the lack of manners and behavior issues (that stem from not being taught at home), pressure from administrators to not fail too many students otherwise it makes the school look bad, pressure from parents to give students grades for little to no work and effort on the student’s part, to pressure from the county to move people to the next grade level, when they may be just barely passing with D grades – clearly not mastery.
When you also have a society that does not value education, and instead, glorifies sports and entertainment, you have the issues we have now. Bet you those graduates that have no ‘knowledge and ability,’ as you claim they do, probably could tell you what the Kardashians are wearing lately, sing you the latest Taylor Swift song, and are already making plans on how many sports games they plan on attending this year……
Daddy Rabbits, you know these morons will not believe you. They will only be happy until their taxes are raised and then they will bitch about that. I always said that the government is deliberately dumbing down the people so they will be more dependent on the government.
What good are Republicans in Harford County?
Actually Mike, Bill made a good argument for “What good are Democrats, anywhere”?
What good are Republican Fascist Presidents?
After giving away tax breaks to his rich political friends he wants to waste tax money on going to Mars!
Lets just send Trump to the Moon for a vacation and forget to bring him back?
Better yet lets impeach him in the House for collusion and obstruction of justice and then kick his corrupt heart and soul out of office in 2020!
Really? Let’s check your facts, Nimrod. Who made this country beholden to UN treaty law? Democrats. Who made drugs illegal? Democrats with a traitor Republican President. Who has made free speech illegal? Democrats. Who wants to take away gun rights? Democrats. Who is banning cigarettes in California? Democrats. Who weaponized the DOJ to commit political persecution? Democrats. Who weaponized the intelligence agencies against the current duly elected President? Democrats. Who has taken away innocence until proven guilty? Democrats. Who has stolen due process? Democrats. Who owns the media to turn public opinion? Democrats. Who owns the educational system and uses it to instill a certain political viewpoint in future voters? Democrats. Who has stolen Baltimore’s schools heating and air conditioning funds? Democrats. Who has turned our law enforcement in to traitors? Democrats. Mike, I can do this all day long on topic after topic. The fact of the matter is the Democratic Party is a fascist party of traitors and the whole Democratic party needs to be shelved. Period. End of discussion. Mike, you are a useless Democratic traitor and I hope you get everything you wish for because in the end you’ll wish you hadn’t gotten any of it…..
See kids this is what will happen if you watch too much Fox news. So keep playing those single shooter games and don’t become a wacked out nut like soulcrusher
@Just the facts or should we say just another alias of Mike Callahan – Can’t take the truth can you Traitor?
Soulcrusher the U.N. Charter was ratified 89-2. Pretty bi partisan!
Soulcrusher is sure those who ratified it are the lizard people running the government
CDEV – The UN Charter was the product of a completely brainwashed country that was being led by the Democratic dictator, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt wanted a one world government and was the architect of the UN, or as those who do not want a one world government call it, “The New World Order”. The complete and utter treason of this idea was the brain child of the traitor FDR. FDR used a wave of Nationalism that was brought on by World War II when Japan attacked us and brought unity to the American people who did correctly believe we needed to fight to preserve our Country. However, FDR went way beyond this and established this one world government and left this Country a victim to the treason he instilled. You can claim bi-partisan creation of the UN, but the reality is it was complete Democratic treason and all the proof anyone needs that FDR was a Democratic Dictator was the creation 22nd Amendment to prevent any President, Republican or Democrat, from being allowed more than 2 terms and becoming a Dictator like the traitor FDR. The only time we have seen Republican Presidents commit similar treason such as this was when the traitor Richard Nixon declared war on the American people on behalf of the UN and the Vatican regarding Drugs and when the traitor George W. Bush allowed the creation of Homeland Security, which was to be used to fight terrorism and organized crime, but then was weaponized against the American people. ALL of these acts of treason are still being used to this day and that is why I claim the corporate government of this Country, which is actually owned by the UN and the HOLY SEE, is treasonous beyond all hope of repair and the American people need to destroy it in order to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that Democratic traitors like you and Callahan wish to see extinguished from this Country so you can turn little boys into little girls and destroy our once great country. CDEV, you are a traitor, just like that piece of shit Callahan and I hope people wake up and start fighting you stinking bastards for the treason you represent. It is true, that acts of treason have been committed by both parties, but the current situation that we now see is that the Democratic scumbags, like yourself, are so bent on betraying your own God damned people that you would abrogate the Constitution in full so you Democratic pussies can continue the destruction of this Country.
@LOL – Don’t you mean the Tall White Nordics that are running this Country? If you’re going to go into Alien conspiracy theories you can at least get it right for once in your life. What a fuktard….
@ Cdev – Furthermore, the Senate approved the entry of the United States into the United Nations (by a vote of 65–7) on December 4, 1945. That’s not the same as the Charter ratification. It should be noted that the Senate consisted of 96 seats at the time and had 57 Democrats and 38 Republicans when the 79th US Senate began. It ended with 54 Dems and 41 Repubs and the Democrats lost the Senate by the time the 80th US Senate began with the Senate consisting of 45 Dems and 51 Repubs. Why do you think the American people made this change? Could it have been due to the TREASON of the STINKING DEMOCRATIC PARTY? Read it for yourself you dumb treasonous fuktard….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79th_United_States_Congress
First FDR died in April of 45. The U.N. Charter was a treaty ratification and it was 89-2. Note the vote in December of 45 would have been a lame duck vote! Truman was President than!
WTF does that have to do with the UN being the brainchild of the DemoDictator? The traitors of his fascist party finished the job, fuktard! The treaty ratification made it an assumption that the USA would have major influence over the World, yet by the time the vote for UN admission was being taken it was understood we would be owned by the UN. You really are a dipshit…..
Soul Crusher is a glutinous oaf who doesn’t understand Christianity or chemistry.
I have heard he stinks.
Yup, because I’m the shit!
@ Nitty Nita – I understand a lot more than you do you stupid fuktard. The days of fat JAM are over. I’m actually pretty thin now, back to my asswhooping weight. However, none of this has anything to do with Christianity being the religion of fairy tales. When your faith is based upon the death and resurrection of a biological entity and you don’t find that hard to believe, well, you have been the victim of religious witchcraft. It’s just the way it is…..
As usual, the Dagger runs the same story for atleast a week. I guess nothing new happens in the area
Piss off, turd.
Ethel, what is your problem???
What’s wrong ethel says, did I touch a nerve or something. Typical lib, when faced with the facts, you attack the messenger.
Rjbaskins says is literally attacking the Dagger while complaining people are attacking the messenger. Typical republican snowflake.
I don’t think you’re using “Snowflake” correctly, but what could be expected from Democrats that are so ignorant they can’t even come up with their own political insults…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang)?fbclid=IwAR1e1ZIrajIfDmUym-8vX5BvHlO_ajPo5k1Np4QbKofex0p8fvYnqy9XHmw
“I don’t think” You should have just stopped there….. idiot.
No, you’re the idiot using the wrong words as a political insult that you obviously know nothing about. Just another example of a Democratic fool that is so ignorant and uneducated that you think you can just start spouting off a bunch of words and it will means something that you want it to mean. Son, I hate to be the one to inform you that you are the “snowflake” and the best thing for this country is for people like you to just “melt”.
Your still pissed over being Bubbas bitch in prison.
Yeah, that’s it. That’s why I call you a Democratic traitor against the United States because I had my ship sunk in prison. You’re just a complete moron and a stinkhole traitor. Tell you what, you come say that to my face and we’ll see how long it takes for you to meet God.
God the magical man who lives in the sky?
It’s ok show us on the doll where the bad cell mate touched you…..
You got it all wrong. The only people in jail who want to look up people’s butts are the jailors themselves. You’d probably be good at that, but more than likely your one of those child touchers who works for the Children’s Advocacy Center. Isn’t that where old Joe Cassilly put all the child touchers from the HCSAO? You know what Joe says, “they will reoffend” and on Joe’s watch it was a guarantee because old Joe approves of Child touching. Especially when it’s his own family. Can you say “Bo Peep”?
John Kasich: ‘I think members of the Republican Party are in a coma right now’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/john-kasich-i-think-members-of-the-republican-party-are-in-a-coma-right-now/2019/07/01/76cb4ae2-8c87-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.51d1f2740ba8
John, they are not in a coma…they’ve just sold their souls to the devil!
Lol says, how is pointing out the obvious that the Dagger keeps stale news on it’s sight for well over a week attacking it? Dig deeper for your insinuations next time
Wow, Moon Nurseries publicly stating they are insolvent. Over 100 years old and the younger generation simply wont pay their bills!