{"id":13939,"date":"2020-10-07T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2020-10-07T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:17:06","slug":"leggett-responds-to-seventh-state-on-question-b-and-school-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13939","title":{"rendered":"Leggett Responds to Seventh State on Question B and School Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former County Executive Ike Leggett sent us the following statement about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13917\">this morning&#8217;s post on Question B and school funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Seventh State for providing a public service by describing the state maintenance of effort law on school funding (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13917\">Would Question B Harm Schools?<\/a>\u201d). You accurately conclude: \u201c\u2026 the bottom line is that Question B would do far less to hurt MCPS than the rest of county government.\u201d Trust me, no one understands that point more than I do. As County Executive, I had to make deep cuts to county government to get us through the great recession of a decade ago. The fact that Question B would harm the county government more than it would harm the schools does not make the case that Question B would not harm the schools. Your article confirms the point that Bruce Adams and I have made that Robin Ficker\u2019s Question B could harm our schools and public services. I urge Montgomery voters to vote against Question B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Former County Executive Ike Leggett sent us the following statement about this morning&#8217;s post on Question B and school funding. ***** Thanks to Seventh State for providing a public service by describing the state maintenance of effort law on school funding (\u201cWould Question B Harm Schools?\u201d). You accurately conclude: \u201c\u2026 the bottom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13939\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leggett Responds to Seventh State on Question B and School Funding<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[167,134],"tags":[1549,2324,1539],"class_list":["post-13939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ike-leggett","category-taxes","tag-ike-leggett","tag-property-taxes","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3CP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}