As the coronavirus has become more prevalent in the Baltimore area, some parents say they are losing confidence in plans for the fall semester and are anxious about sending their children into classrooms.
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All Maryland public school students and staff will be required to wear masks in school buildings in the coming weeks following passage of an emergency regulation by the state board Thursday afternoon.
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His achievement in perfecting the right academic culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County that allowed Black, Asian and Hispanic students from modest backgrounds to excel in the sciences and technology, elevated Freeman Hrabowski to a national leader in higher education.
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The Maryland state school board will vote Thursday on whether to institute a statewide mandate requiring every child and adult to be masked in schools.
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The result could be a logistical nightmare for schools, with hundreds of students quarantined at home without access in most districts to the online classes they had last year.
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Thousands of Maryland students left public schools last year amid COVID. Will they return this fall?
An analysis of data by The Baltimore Sun and Big Local News shows Maryland public schools lost 27,000 children between September 2020 and September 2021, at a time when enrollment had been projected to grow.
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Baltimore’s teachers will get a 4.5% pay increase over the next two years, improved benefits and a district provided computer, under a tentative agreement reached between the Baltimore Teachers Union and city school officials.
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Baltimore County is not planning to reinstate an indoor mask mandate, but will push forward on efforts to get more more people in the county vaccinated in hopes of reversing the increase in COVID cases, county officials said Friday.
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School officials — from the U.S. Secretary of Education to education officials at the state and local level — say they must restart normal school after 18 months of disruption.
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Amid a national debate over critical race theory and standards for teaching history in K-12 public schools, Carroll and Harford county school boards have said recently that they want “politically neutral” curriculum.
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