Liz Bowie
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The Baltimore County school board has to make many decisions about the leadership and future of the system in the wake of Dallas Dance's resignation as superintendent. - The Baltimore County school board will meet soon to decide how to proceed in its search for a replacement for Dallas Dance who abruptly announced he will leave the superintendent's job on June 30.
- Dallas Dance resigns as Baltimore County Schools superintendent
- The chance that a public school student will have a black teacher is not very good. Only 18 percent of the nation's teaching workforce is a person of color.
- Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced plans to include $7 million for the planning and design of a new 1,500 seat middle school in Perry Hall in his budget for next year.
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Baltimore City schools chief Sonja Santelises said Tuesday she will have to lay off employees despite commitments by state and city leaders to help fill a
State education leaders are infuriated by the passage of legislation they see as a power grab by the General Assembly that will diminish their role in deciding how schools are held accountable over the next 15 years. Twenty years ago, public education in Baltimore and this New England capital had much in common.
Tens of thousands of minority students, living in p
On the day that the Henderson-Hopkins school opened its doors to let children in, Crystal Jordan marveled at its light-filled rooms, curving stairs and inte
Jeff Sanford went to the debate at the high school cafeteria with an open mind. The Baltimore County school board declined to approve two high school renovations on Tuesday night after concerns that the work was too limited to make all the improvements that are needed. The Baltimore County school board is scheduled to vote Tuesday night on whether to approve high school renovations that have been staunchly opposed by parents in both Timonium and Lansdowne. A 37-year-old man was shot in the arm and body Friday night in the 1500 block of Montpelier St., according to Baltimore police.
The victim was in his c
Jason Botel, a Baltimore education advocate and former charter school leader, is being named a senior White House education advisor, according to Politico. More than 25,000 books and school supplies have been delivered to children in 50 schools, recreation centers, churches and after-school programs across the state, according to Gov. Larry Hogan administration officials. The Maryland State Department of Education is holding a hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore to hear comment from the public about a new structure for how students and schools will be held accountable. Maryland's baby steps to giving students greater school choice took off this year with a $5 million taxpayer funded program to help parents underwrite private school tuition. The Baltimore County school system would give its employees a 2 percent pay increase and hire more than a 100 new teachers as part of a 8.5 percent increase in local funding under the proposed spending plan presented to the school board Tuesday night. A 61-year-old man Cherry Hill resident was arrested Wednesday and charged with the rape of a 43-year-old woman who lives in a nursing home, Baltimore City police said. Maryland's place on a national ranking of state public schools fell once again this year from fourth to fifth place. A 50-year-old former Baltimore County teachers aid was given a 10-year suspended sentence on Thursday for the sex abuse of a 15-year-old boy in Carroll County. The state school board is considering bold measures — offering vouchers, creating new charter programs and establishing a statewide school district — to improve consistently low-performing schools. Maryland should spend $2.6 billion more on public education and revamp the formula used to calculate school funding, according to a two year study by a national consulting firm. Negotiations between Baltimore's teachers and school system leadership appear to have stalled with the union posting a letter saying attacking the team of negotiators as "ineffective and indecisive."
- The Maryland state school board set guidelines for granting waivers to Gov. Larry Hogan's post-Labor Day start mandate that will allow few school districts or schools to get them.
- Only 43 percent of Maryland's youngest students were ready for kindergarten when they entered school this August.
- Chester Finn, who was highly critical of Gov. Larry Hogan in blog posts, was elected vice-president of the Maryland State Board of Education Monday.
- Six elementary schools were named Maryland blue ribbon schools, a designation given only to those highest performing schools or those that have made significant improvement.
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Some parents and students fought back against criticism of Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance at the school board meeting Tuesday night, saying tha
- Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance has agreed to report his adjunct professor salary after an ethics panel found he had violated provisions that required him to do so on financial disclosure forms.
- After a divisive campaign and an upset victory by Donald J. Trump, educators are trying to find a way to calm the rhetoric and restore a sense of civility with a range of lessons from those on history, democratic principles to those on how to speak kindly and disagree respectfully.
- Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz affirmed his support of county school superintendent Dallas Dance Friday, after Dance came under fire for tweeting a comment that educators should reach out to students who may have felt maligned during the presidential campaign.
- The Baltimore County school board adopted a calendar for the next school year that gives students two days off for spring break and preserves one Jewish holy day.
- Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance is coming under criticism for a retweet he made that asked educators to reach out to students who may have felt
- Many of the nearly 500 immigrant students at Patterson High School had never been through an American presidential election. Some thought the president was like a king with unlimited power. They came to school Wednesday with questions and fears about Donald J. Trump..
- Glenn Chappell, driver of the school bus that was involved in an accident Tuesday that killed him and five other people, had recently been barred from driving commercial vehicles because he failed to provide authorities with a certificate that he was in good health.
- While some schools in the Baltimore region posted solid results on the latest round of state tests, most weren't celebrating.
- In a region rich with science related jobs, Maryland's public school students score at or slightly better than the national average on a test known as the Nation's Report Card.
- The Archdiocese of Baltimore is closing three of its schools and merging two others following a detailed study that looked at declining enrollments and the need to upgrade aging facilities.
- James Gates, a physicist and Maryland State School Board member, is resigning his position on the board as a protest against Gov. Larry Hogan's executive order to begin school after Labor Day.
- Baltimore Polytechnic Institute has been known for pumping out top math and science students for more than a century. So perhaps it isn't surprising that the elite city high school has the highest pass rate of any in the region on the tough new state Algebra I exam. The Baltimore Sun analyzed 2016 scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career and ranked Baltimore-area elementary, middle and high schools.
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The Bryn Mawr School has chosen an administrator from an Ohio all-girls private school to take over on July 1, 2017 as its 10th headmistress.
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- It took less than 24 hours for Maryland State School Board member Chester Finn to blast Gov. Larry Hogan for his latest order on starting school after Labor Day
- Gov. Larry Hogan made clear on Tuesday that any school districts seeking to get around his executive order to start school after Labor Day won't be permitted to do so.
- When it meets Tuesday night, Baltimore County's school board will be confronted with the choice of three different school calendars for next year and a test of how independent and fearless it wants to be.
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Athanasia Kyriakakos, a Baltimore City high school art teacher, was named Maryland State Teacher of the Year Friday night, the second year in a row a city ed
- Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises believes schools in pockets of concentrated poverty will improve if she can provide them better teachers, offer their students a richer curriculum and leverage the sometimes unrecognized strengths of people within their communities.
- A teacher at Deer Park Elementary School in Baltimore County faces disciplinary action after she posted a picture of herself with a class of students on school grounds and described them using an expletive, a county schools spokesman said Tuesday.
- Baltimore City school officials put additional security measures in place at schools Monday after some of the district's middle and high school students were threatened over the weekend over social media.
- If Gov. Larry Hogan expected all the people he appointed to the Maryland State Board of Education to fall in line and support his order not to start school before Labor Day, he guessed wrong.
