Where’s The Casino Money That Was Supposed To Fund Md. Schools? – WJZ
When WJZ viewers saw freezing children and broken down city classrooms– suddenly everybody asked “what happened to all the casino money that was supposed to help the schools?”
We all remember them. Emotional, dramatic commercials first in 2008 and then again 2012 appealing to voters to approve gambling in Maryland because it would mean millions in additional money for Maryland’s school children.
Many of you voted to legalize gambling after being swayed by the casino campaign.
Benjamin Orr of the Center for Economic Policy says, “the voters thought they were voting for this totally new pot of money for education and they didn’t get it.”
The casinos are making more and more money and, by law, putting more and more money in the Education Trust Fund but that is not moving the dial on education.
