elementary schools
- Class rank will disappear from Howard’s 12 high schools at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year.
- Bernadine "Bee Bee" Reed was driving for Darlington County for about 45 days when she became a hero, according to the school superintendent.
- Teachers dismissed their students for the last time of the school year at Cranberry Station Elementary School with bubbles and hugs.
- Ted Quatman is making his final run as driver of Bus 327 for students with disabilities at Darlington Elementary School, and he is going to be missed.
- A boundary study for overcrowded Pleasant Plains Elementary School in Towson will move forward after a Baltimore County Board of Education decision last week.
- The vote was unanimous and required no discussion.
- The Baltimore school board voted Tuesday night to approve a new charter school, likely named Clay Hill Public Charter, in the Bayview neighborhood.
- An Ellicott City elementary school principal sent an email Monday to its school community to address “a threatening statement” that was made.
- All elementary schools in Baltimore County’s west zone that delayed dismissal due to inclement weather in the area began dismissing just before 4:10 p.m.
- Cleanup of debris and downed trees in Harford County continued Thursday after storms ripped through the region Wednesday.
- A Storybook Trail, built by Edgewood Middle School students on the Deerfield Elementary School campus, had its grand opening Wednesday afternoon.
- Howard County school officials are on track with moving forward in the process of building a replacement Talbott Springs Elementary School in Columbia.
- Warren Elementary School principal Lisa Dingle apologized after she dismissed students from the Cockeysville elementary school while the area was under a tornado warning on April 26.
- For about 350 students, the courtyard at Winfield Elementary School transformed into Camp Winfield for a few hours Friday, a place where they could read around the “campfire,” go fishing and hang out in tents.
- The proposed change would move about 75 students from Johnnycake Elementary School to nearby Edmondson Heights Elementary.
- Overlea High School's Monica Sample, Honeygo Elementary School's Charlene Behnke and Crossroad Center's Kristen Nielsen were all recognized.
- The squirrel is the beloved mascot of Hickory Elementary School. But a new critter has captured the hearts of the school’s staff, students and community over the past few years.
- During their monthly meeting, the Carroll Board of Education heard proposals for policies involving cellphones and social media and heard from teacher's union members during the budgeting process.
- The planning group dealing with overcrowding at Johnnycake Elementary School has chosen Option 4 to address the matter.
- Paige Milanoski, a English teacher at Havre de Grace High School, was named Harford County Public Schools’ Teacher of the Year for 2019 Wednesday night.
- Fallston High School students and staff will dismiss at 9 a.m. Wednesday because of water loss in the building.
- Joyce P. Wheeler, a retired city public schools elementary teacher who made teaching science fun, died March 21 of complications of Alzheimer's disease at her family farm in Sequim, Wash. The former longtime Govans resident was 78.
- Carroll County Public Schools educators were recognized at the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Teacher Awards program Wednesday evening.
- Daniel Zubrowski, a teacher at Havre de Grace Elementary School, was named a winner of Maryland's 2019 Financial Education and Capability Award program for coordinating a school-wide financial literacy carnival last spring.
- Baltimore County Public Schools on Wednesday launched an online survey to gauge public opinion on four draft scenarios to change the boundaries between Johnnycake and Edmondson Heights elementary schools with the goal of reducing crowding at Johnnycake.
- The Howard County Public School System includes 42 elementary schools; 20 middle schools; 12 high schools; one school for students with severe disabilities; one school for students with behavioral and emotional issues; and one school for students enrolled in technical and vocational programs.
- Riverside Elementary School in Joppa and Churchville Elementary School in Churchville will be closed due to power outages.
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- Gwen Furano, counselor at Manchester Elementary School, is using National School Counseling Week, celebrated Feb. 4-8, to encourage her students to face obstacles with a growth mindset.
- No decisions are final until the Board of Education takes a vote in June.
- When Glen Messier, 37, filled out an application online, he didn’t expect he would be one of Lifetouch Memory Mission’s randomly selected educators for its trip to Puerto Rico. But he has better luck than he thought.
- Five schools in Baltimore were closed Tuesday due to water and heat-related problems.
- Each Fountain Green Elementary School student has a homework assignment Monday through Thursday, to read the next chapter of “The World According to Humphrey,” a series by Betty E. Birney. It's about a classroom pet hamster who tells the stories of the school days, and nights, as he sees them.
- Spring Garden Elementary School students, except those in pre-K, were dismissed at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 11, due to a water line break. But the problem, which affected flushing toilets and drinking water, was fixed by 3 p.m.
- Here are our biggest takeaways from the 2019-2029 Carroll County Public Schools student enrollment projection report presented at the last Board of Education meeting on Jan. 9:
- A committee of nine teachers, school officials, parents and community members met for the first time this week to discuss potential boundary changes to relieve overcrowding at Johnnycake Elementary School.
- The Baltimore County Board of Education on Tuesday approved contracts related to the construction of a replacement building for Chadwick Elementary School, a new roof for Johnnycake Elementary School and a partial roof replacement for Hillcrest Elementary School.
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- The Maryland Science Center travels to hundreds of schools across the state each year for its traveling science program.
- Six public schools were named Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools, an award given to the state’s highest performing schools.
- Anne Arundel County's elementary schools would have earned more stars on the new state rating system but for the fifth grade health curriculum.
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Sandymount Elementary School will be closed again Tuesday after heating coil bursts, flooding school
Flooding caused Sandymount Elementary School to close Monday, Nov. 26, the first day back for students after Thanksgiving break. - Johnnycake Elementary parents were told the crowding relief strategy would involve a newly built school and about a half dozen others. Now the plan is limited to Johnnycake and Edmondson Heights.
- Black elementary school students who have black teachers are significantly more likely to enroll in college, according to a research paper co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University professor.
- The county school board unanimously approved Clary’s Forest, a land site located off of Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia, as the future home of elementary school 45.
- Retired Navy jet pilot William Wiley spoke to fifth-grade students at Westminster Elementary School Monday afternoon.
- Retired Baltimore County accountant fought elementary school closures and was active in the GOP
- Hillcrest Elementary School in Catonsville is preparing for an anniversary fair on Oct. 13 to celebrate its 50th and its future with an eye toward its past. The school was built in an effort to counter education segregation.
- The Howard County school system will submit a revised replacement design for Talbott Springs Elementary School to state school planners within the month.
- The marker commemorates 1935, the year in which black students Margaret Williams and Lucille Scott were denied admittance to Catonsville High School, from which followed a lawsuit that was a step on the road to Brown v. Board of Education.