May 2, 2007 |
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During this year's legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly and I have worked together to invest a record $400 million into school construction, to start to get our children out of the temporary learning shacks and into decent classrooms. We have frozen college tuition, so that we can provide more opportunity for Maryland's working families who deserve to be able to afford to send their kids to Maryland colleges.
We also fully funded program Open Space to get ahead of the development that's chewing up too much Maryland land. We also reduced car emissions and tackled global warming with a new Clean Cars Law. We also helped farmers protect their land by investing in cover crops and innovation of best practices. And we took affirmative steps to start to clean up the health of the Chesapeake Bay, not only by measuring performance of the various Bay programs through BayStat, but also by restoring native oysters, the natural filter to the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.