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It appears the global food shortage and the resulting spike in wheat and milk costs is hitting Maryland school lunchroom budgets hard. Area schools reported spending hundreds of thousands of dollars more for food this year than last, even as ...
The sky-is-falling scenarios are emerging again in Anne Arundel, as school officials battle the county executive for more money for the district. The district asked the county for $77.5 million. It got $26 million.
Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell is ...
The letters have been coming in a steady stream for three weeks. Hundreds of them. To local media outlets, the school board, the county council -- anyone who will listen. "Fund the schools budget immediately," they demand.
Parents are protesting ...
It wasn't surprising. Every one of us who's been in a classroom lately has seen it: reading and math squeezing out other subjects like social studies, music and art. And this week a national report by the Washington think tank Center on Education ...
Got an e-mail that might interest some of you. There's a conference next week (Wed. Feb. 20) in Baltimore to discuss how schools, local government groups and non-profits can help urban schoolchildren better learn about nature and the environment. The ...
Members of the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee might find some glittery valentines today mixed in with their piles of paperwork on pending bills. The folks at FairVote, a Takoma Park-based nonprofit for voting rights, had dozens of 16-year-old ...
I'm not sure when or how this happened, but it seems that Anne Arundel is the place to come if you want to close charter schools.
Last summer, KIPP Harbor Academy closed. The charter school in Edgewater was part of a highly touted national network for ...
Last week, I followed the story of a teacher and principal of an Anne Arundel County charter school being investigated for asking misbehaving students to do push-ups and sit-ups. The county's Child Protective Services is investigating the complaints. ...
After abruptly booting out the principal of Anne Arundel's lone charter school (see my story today), school officials held a meeting last night to allay concerns of parents who were rattled by the sudden decision. The officials told Chesapeake Science ...
Here we go again. It looks as if officials with the Anne Arundel county government and school system are getting ready to spar again over education spending. Arundel Supt. Kevin M. Maxwell presented last week a $969 million budget that seeks $100 ...
