This year was supposed to be huge for education spending. The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, the state’s expensive and ambitious plan to make schools the best in the nation, called for a massive investments in teachers and wraparound services for low-income students.

But Gov. Wes Moore, facing down a $3 billion gap and looming budget crisis, wants to scale back some of those plans and cut other education expenses. Here’s what that would mean for schools.

Parts of the Blueprint will be delayed

Moore said he would protect future investments in education by slowing down the implementation of the Blueprint, thus saving $2.5 billion by the end of the decade. That money would be saved in a fund that collects state revenues from gambling and other sources to fund education.

State funding for education will still increase by about 6% beginning next school year. Until the governor’s bill is filed in Annapolis next week, it is difficult to see just what those cuts in the Blueprint will be, but he has said he will pause the increases in spending that would have given teachers more time during the school day to collaborate with colleagues and train.

Funding for community schools won’t increase as planned

Funding for community schools, which offer services like mental health support for families of students in poverty, won’t grow after this year. Under the Blueprint, funding for those services was supposed to increase for several more years.

Moore will introduce a bill that details a three-point plan to make community schools “the best in the nation,” according to his budget book.

Child care scholarships will be more limited

Child care scholarships, which help working parents pay for day care or preschool, became so popular last year that the state blew through the money it had set aside.

To avoid a repeat, Moore is proposing a temporary limit on the number of families who can enroll.

Shayna Cook, who oversees the state education department’s early childhood division, told lawmakers Thursday the state plans to pause child care scholarship enrollment in May. There will be a maximum of 42,000 spots in the program, with a waitlist. Low-income families on other government assistance will get priority starting in September as kids age out and spots open up.

Currently, a family of four making nearly $112,000 and applying for the first time would be eligible for a scholarship.

Counties would pay more for special education and teacher retirements

The Moore administration appears to be attempting to offload some of the costs for education that the state has paid for over the years. The General Assembly would have to approve those changes. First, Moore wants the local governments — Maryland counties and Baltimore City — to pick up $93 million more of the cost of teacher retirements.

Second, the state wants to cut $25 million for the cost of students with severe disabilities who cannot be educated in a normal public school. The costs of placing those students in special schools can run into the tens of thousands of dollars for each student. The state contributed 70% of those funds. Moore’s proposing to drop it to 60%.

Reporter Madeleine O’Neill contributed to this report.