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Federal school grant program jump-starts efforts to fix troubled schools
After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst-performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no...Tags: Parties and Movements, Cultural Development, Teaching and Learning, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Arne Duncan
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City schools with federal turnaround grants have mixed results
Once students hurled computers out the windows at Calverton Middle School, but today they are learning on state-of-the-art technology that has flooded into the West Baltimore school. Once teachers couldn't wait to transfer out of a place where students...Tags: Teachers, Chicago, Illinois, Examinations, Crossroads
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White Hall farmer donates Monsanto grant funds to Penn-Mar Human Services
Daniel Pieper, of Hunter Mill Farm in White Hall, donated a $2,500 grant he won to Penn-Mar Human Services in Freeland Tuesday, March 27. Pieper applied for the grant in December and was informed he was the Baltimore County winner of Monsanto's...
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Laurel mayor requests funding for Main Street redevelopment programs
Mayor Craig Moe wants to direct $300,000 of city funding to three programs aimed at bolstering and spurring economic development on and around Main Street in downtown Laurel, according to a proposed city ordinance introduced before the City Council...Tags: Business
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Region's emergency preparedness grant funding cut in half
The Baltimore region — including Howard County — will receive about half as much federal funding from a key emergency preparedness grant program in fiscal year 2012 as it did in fiscal year 2011, according to budget figures released Feb. 17 by...Tags: Annapolis, Howard County, National Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Letter from the Komen Maryland Executive Director
By now, I am sure you have all heard the recent controversy surrounding Susan G. Komen and the subsequent amendment of the grant funding criteria policy. Nothing has changed these past few days as far as the local funding for breast cancer services...Tags: Breast Cancer, Hunt Valley, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Research, Finance
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Some students are leaving college with huge private loans
Megan Connors of Harford County says she got a great education at Auburn University but a brutal lesson on private student loans. Federal aid wasn't enough to cover four years at the Alabama school, so Connors made up the difference with private loans....Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Consumers, Colleges and Universities, Finance, Students
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President's proposal on tuition, student aid raises hopes and concerns
Higher-education leaders in Maryland praised an effort unveiled by President Barack Obama on Friday to make college more affordable but expressed unease about still-emerging details that could have an impact on federal funding and student aid. Calling...Tags: University System of Maryland, Barack Obama, Consumers, Towson, Towson University
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Funds for regional disaster preparedness facing cuts
If a large-scale terror attack were to occur in the Port of Baltimore, responders from Carroll and other counties would be able to coordinate assistance efforts with city responders — thanks in large part to the region's Central Maryland Area...Tags: Port of Baltimore, Carroll County (Maryland), Flu, Safety of Citizens, FEMA
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Rep. Steny Hoyer and First Generation alumni praise Pell Grant Program
Lonnie Moore, a Morgan State University graduate, is a sales team leader for IBM. Tiwana Smith, a graduate of Maryland Eastern Shore University, is a probation officer in Raleigh, N.C.
Tiara Matthews and Alonzo Washington are graduates of the...Tags: Steny H. Hoyer, Laurel, Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, Graduation
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Harford, Cecil seek federal aid after recent storms
Havre de Grace is likely on the hook for more than $12,000 spent on cleanup from Tropical Storm Lee that caused significant flooding along the Susquehanna earlier this month, while Port Deposit and Perryville remain hopeful for federal aid in the wake...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Harford County, Port Deposit, Natural Disasters, Disasters
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The peril of cutting Pell Grants
For much of the early history of the U.S., college was only for a small segment of society, the elite. As the need for more practical education and broader access to higher education became apparent if the United States was going to fully develop its...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, National Government, Government
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