Maryland Casino Education
Launch a new career as a casino dealer!
CCBC Casino Dealer Academy at Horseshoe Baltimore, no cost career training where you can earn while you learn.August was the second full month for Maryland’s casinos, which reopened late-June after closing in mid-March due to COVID-19 restrictions. Including $47.4 million for the state’s Education. Comptroller Peter Franchot made a prediction in 2008, with the question of legalizing casino gambling before Maryland voters: “Slots are a fiscal fairy tale,” he said. The plan “will not produce one dollar of new spending for education, and I encourage everybody to understand that this industry is a shady and sleazy practice.”.
Casino dealers earn excellent hourly wages. Learn from professionals! Our faculty instructors are industry experts.
- Maryland casinos won $145.23 million in April of 2019, but $0 last month, as all six gaming properties were closed by COVID-19. MGM National Harbor and the five other Maryland casinos remain.
- State legislative analysts say casino money allowed Maryland to keep pace with education funding formulas even in tough fiscal times. By 2015, the casinos were generating more than $350 million for.
- Great for students with flexible part-time hours that can work around class schedules.
- Great for first or second careers. All ages 18+ are welcomed!
- Excellent full time wage earners with benefits. Choose a shift that fits your lifestyle.
Career Outlook:
Casino dealers are currently in high demand in Maryland. Dealers earn $20+ per hour for part-time or $42,000+ yearly plus benefits for full-time are available with flexible hours in this 24/7 entertainment industry.
Classes are offered in the following format:
- Full-time 6 Week Session — Monday through Friday, 8 hours per day.
Learn more about the Casino Dealer Training Continuing Education certificate program.
Find out more about what it takes to launch a new career as a casino dealer at no cost to you. Call 443.840.5840 for more information, email Yumi Kim, Ph.D. at ykim2@ccbcmd.edu or email CCBCCasinoDealerAcademy@ccbcmd.edu
Casino Dealer Poker Classes at CCBC Owings Mills (non-academy related classes)
Learn the skills and techniques needed to be a sought after casino poker dealer. This program is available to new dealers or for existing table games dealers.
HSL 092 - Casino Poker Dealer (80 hours)
In 2011, casinos contributed $50 million to the Education Trust Fund; in 2013, $284 million; in 2015, $350 million. Projections for last year are $500 million — in total, $2 billion since 2011.
Maryland Casino Revenue Education
If you’ve been wondering about the influx of casino cash lawmakers promised when casino gambling passed in Maryland, you’re not alone.
Talk about school funding with nearly anyone who follows public education and they’ll say, “But what about the casino money?” Sold as a silver bullet for resource-strapped schools, the money has instead merely supplanted the general funds that would normally go to meet the state’s required contributions to public education.
Since the opening of the first casino in Maryland in 2010, $1.7 billion has gone into the Education Trust Fund. But the state’s education funding has remained stagnant — adhering strictly to the state’s school funding formula — so instead of improving public education with big gambling dollars, lawmakers have come to depend on those dollars to help finance the state’s general fund.
Skeptics — legislators, educators, and the public — say, “I told you so,” noting that there was no requirement that education spending increase with casino revenues. But two state legislators, Del. Maggie McIntosh (D–Baltimore City) and Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D–Baltimore City) are out to correct the course during the General Assembly session with a constitutional amendment that would, according to the Baltimore Sun, “put the state’s share of revenue from its casino gambling industry in a ‘lockbox’ for public schools.”
Maryland Casino Money For Education
McIntosh told the Sun that the amendment would ensure that gambling money would not supplant the education funding formula but enhance it. On the first day of Maryland’s 2018 General Assembly session, Senate President Mike Miller and House Speaker Mike Busch pledged to sponsor the legislation, dramatically raising its chances of success.
“The lockbox proposal could serve as the down-payment we need to address the chronic underfunding of our schools,” said Sean Johnson, MSEA’s chief lobbyist. “Our schools face a shortfall of nearly $3 billion in state aid. This rededicated money would be a major new investment in our schools.”
See MSEA’s timeline for more about closing the $2.9 billion gap in education funding.