By Matthew Cella
The Washington Times
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Listen up, Maryland public schools — state Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot has a bone to pick with you.
Mr. Franchot, a Democrat, kicked off a campaign last week urging schools not to start their academic years until after Labor Day in order to help increase revenue for some of the state’s popular tourist spots.
At a Board of Public Works meeting, the outspoken comptroller lamented how school districts in recent years have asked students and teachers to report earlier. The start of school has been pushed up from around Labor Day to a full one or two weeks before the first Monday in September.
Schoolchildren may not have been thrilled with this development, but Mr. Franchot said the biggest losers might be business owners in tourist-heavy areas such as Ocean City, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor or Western Maryland’s Deep Creek Lake whose busy seasons seem to get shorter every year.
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