Listening to how quickly an uptick in juvenile crime has triggered calls for harsher penalties, I can’t help fuming over how slowly Maryland has responded to the institutional misdeeds that, over the decades, helped cause this problem.
When the Kirwan Commission announced that it was delaying until 2018 its recommendations on how to correct years of imbalance in how Maryland funds its schools, the reaction was telling:
From the public, outside of advocates for Baltimore’s under-resourced primarily African-American schools, it was crickets.
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