Gov. Larry Hogan today announced legislation to create an office of the state education investigator general to look into complaints on illegal and unethical conduct by school administrators, as well as $2.5 million in discretionary funding from the state’s Catastrophic Event Account to fix the “immediate, horrendous, failing HVAC systems crisis” in Baltimore.
“Let me be clear: This is not to reward the people responsible who have failed, this funding is literally about saving kids from freezing in winter, and from sweating and being hospitalized during the warm weather,” Hogan said at a press conference.
While he did commend Mayor Catherine Pugh for bringing in city engineers to work on the broken HVAC systems over the weekend, Hogan slammed Baltimore City Public Schools, citing a report in The Sun that the system has returned millions in state funding for repairs.
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