Schools can screen students for behavioral health issues – but many are reluctant to do so
After Achilles Bardos learned about the internet in the 1990s, he thought to himself, “Why not in psychology?”
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Maryland will slow – not stop – its investment in schools
Maryland lawmakers passed a bill this week revising the state’s expensive education reform plan, making marginal cuts instead of the more dramatic rollbacks proposed earlier this year.
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Letter to the Editor: Local Leaders Need to Protect Immigrants from ICE
In one of Donald Trump’s first acts in office, he stripped away protections for schools, hospitals, and places of worship from immigration enforcement. These were once safe spaces where people could learn, receive health care, and pray without fear. Now they have been turned into targets for ICE raids.
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On gender identity in schools, Maryland school board candidates are divided
Howard County school board candidate Trent Kittleman said that like other conservative candidates, she strongly opposes policies that allow schools to withhold information from parents when a child chooses alternate pronouns.. Kittleman is a former state delegate who lost re-election in 2022 and asked to be taken off the Moms for Liberty rolls when she began her school board campaign, Baltimore Fishbowl reported in March.
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Should Maryland schools ban cellphones? Here’s what school board candidates say
By Sasha Allen and Audrey Keefe FOCUS NOW! PHONES LATER,” blares the newest school cellphone policy out of Washington County.
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Is Maryland’s ‘Blueprint’ the path to better schools? We asked school board candidates
A 10-year, $30 billion plan out of Annapolis, the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future aims to dramatically improve the state’s public schools by boosting teacher salaries, expanding pre-kindergarten and rewriting the curriculum — and school board candidates say the state’s schools need that improvement.
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Van Hollen, other Maryland Democrats and teachers slam Tennessee law arming educators
Maryland federal and state lawmakers, as well as local education groups, are speaking out against allowing teachers to carry firearms in classrooms, adding that they are confident that a bill allowing such a practice won’t come to fruition in the state.
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Maryland’s education ‘Blueprint’ struggles to expand pre-K
By MARIJKE FRIEDMAN and NATALIE WEGER Capital News Service As a group of 4-year-old boys worked to create a towering
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Taking Note of a Few Things: The Who is Really to Blame Edition
I recently saw a video of a Michigan teacher being struck in the head with a chair thrown by a student
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Two counties moved to ‘healthier’ school start times. How does the rest of Maryland compare?
Teenagers experience a shift in their circadian clocks, also known as a biological or internal rhythm, after puberty. They get tired later at night and wake up later in the morning, and early school start times force high school students to ignore those biological needs.
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