Hogan’s Budget: City school aid drops, no local bond bills
By Len Lazarick [email protected] As the legislature’s budget analysts drilled down in the governor’s $42 billion spending plan, they’ve come
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Wide variance in hours spent in testing public schools
By Len Lazarick [email protected] In Queen Anne’s County, second graders take 28 hours of locally mandated tests each year, the
Read moreWho is to blame for Maryland’s school testing malaise
Photo by mmole with Flickr Creative Commons License By Melody Simmons For MarylandReporter.com When a state commission meets for the
Read moreSchools are broken
The public school system is broken and unlike what some leaders would like you to think, it is not entirely
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Governor Larry Hogan angers lawmakers by putting corporate grants in for schools into budget
Budget analysts brief the House Appropriations Committee Thursday. By Rebecca Lessner For MarylandReporter.com Gov. Larry Hogan was chastised by delegates
Read more10 Maryland school districts recognize religious holidays by name;14 don’t
By Stephen Waldron Capital News Service This school year, 14 of Maryland’s 24 school systems will not recognize any religious
Read moreJamie Oliver is the ‘Food Revolution Ambassador’
You know him as the Naked Chef. Jamie Oliver is a bit of a pioneer in the world of healthy
Read moreCommon Core generates bill to drop old tests in Md. public schools
Emergency legislation to stop Maryland from administering a federally mandated student assessment test was introduced Thursday in the House of Delegates with strong bipartisan sponsorship.
The Maryland Student Assessment test (MSA) is slated to be phased out after this year, when it will be administered once more this spring. But the test is considered outdated because it doesn’t test for what students are learning in classrooms this year under the state’s new Common Core education curriculum.
Read moreNRA calls to arm schools with guns to stop kindergarten killers
NRA Transcript Dec. 21, 2012. DAVID KEENE, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION: Good morning. I’m Dave Keene, president of the National
Read moreDo schools really need to start early? How about Parenting 101 classes instead?
An article I read about a petition by parents to get Montgomery County school to start schools at a later
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