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Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress, producer, writer, athlete, and former fashion model.

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Will smaller high schools graduate more students?

Here's an interesting article about an initiative in Michigan aimed at reducing the size of high schools. It's an especially timely article for those of you who may be following the debate locally about school size, an issue recently brought into ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Jun 2008

A dose of inspiration

If you haven't already caught it, please take a moment to read today's story about Joseph Kaminski, a centenarian who has worked as a bindery technician for the Baltimore County Public School System for nearly three decades and says he plans to stay as ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Jun 2008

Baltimore County joins the crowd on raising lunch prices

Thursday, May 8, 2008 Sun reporter Ruma Kumar      Anne Arundel County students who eat breakfast at school may soon have to do without whole-grain cinnamon rolls. In Carroll County, school cafeterias are stretching their vegetable supply by making ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: United Stated Department of Agriculture

Things are heating up in Towson

Parents in the Towson area are hot under the collar after Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr. decided yesterday that $12 million that had been budgeted for the expansion of Loch Raven High School will instead go toward other projects after ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  12 Jun 2008

High expectations in Baltimore County

Shortly after this week's news that the Baltimore County school system has the fourth-highest graduation rate among the nation's 50 largest school districts, I caught up with county schools Superintendent Joe A. Hairston at the Community College of ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  5 Jun 2008

For schools, it's cool to be green

Kudos to the students and staffs at several Baltimore County public and private schools --- Dundalk Elementary, Franklin Middle, Jacksonville Elementary, Norwood Elementary, Pot Spring Elementary, the Rosedale School, and the Odyssey School --- that ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  5 Jun 2008

Debate over how to fix Baltimore County's high school overcrowding issue

Today's article about growing opposition to a proposed 400-seat addition at Loch Raven High School mentions a study conducted five years ago that recommends building a school to alleviate crowding in the county's northeast and central areas -- namely ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  20 May 2008

"Girls Gone Great" essay contest

Word of an interesting essay contest, dropped into my inbox and seemed worth sharing. The contest "celebrates young women who are making a difference in their communities and in the world, and who also have a vision for the future," according to its ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  14 May 2008

Doodle, doodle, come out of your hole...

Zach Urtes, a senior at Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts, is in the running as a regional winner in the "Doodle 4 Google" national competition. This year's contest challenged students in K-12 to "reinvent" the homepage logo of the online ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Towson group vows to keep close eye on school construction

A number of people have been asking what Towson Families United plans to do next, now that a new elementary school has been approved for Towson.  The first thing we're going to do is stay together.  Our group, more than 500 strong, has been incredibly ...

From GINA DAVIS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  13 May 2008

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