College Park Students Protest Doomsday Budget Cuts To Higher Education - WJZ

University of Maryland students say lawmakers are failing them. “They didn’t do their jobs at all because if you’re trying to balance a budget on the backs of students who already don’t have any money, you got a problem,” one student said. At a rally Thursday, several hundred marched on campus, urging the governor to call a special session to hash out a budget–a task the state legislature did not accomplish by sine die. “I’m sorry we didn’t get the job done. They need to work to make sure we actually come back and get the job done,” said Sen. Richard Madaleno, D-Maryland. Otherwise, a so-called doomsday budget will cut deep into to higher education– $38.5 million less for public universities, nearly $20 million less for community schools, and grants to private schools would be slashed by $4 million.