Schoolyard scuffles and fights amongst angsty teens are common in America’s public schools. In recent years, national anti-violence campaigns have helped reduce school violence. But Baltimore City schools, which have also improved on some measures in recent years, are generally more dangerous for students than schools in the rest of the nation. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005 and 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Former Marriott executive and news anchor Kathleen Matthews has pulled ahead in fundraising in the Democratic contest to fill Rep. Chris Van Hollen’s Montgomery County-based congressional seat. State Sen. Jamie Raskin was second, and Del. Kumar Barve was third.
Officials from the Maryland State Department of Education told lawmakers they are expecting the results of the new PARCC exam to serve as a new baseline for assessing student performance, and itemized results will show individual students’ areas of deficiency. In a presentation Wednesday to a joint meeting of education subcommittees from both the Maryland House and Senate, the state Department of Education outlined its expectations for the test results and areas of improvement for coming years of testing.
A seventh candidate entered the crowded Democratic race for Maryland’s 8th congressional district Monday, as the contest to replace Rep. Chris Van Hollen in the House seat continues to heat up. All are from Montgomery County, which has the most population but the smallest land area of the district which now stretches north into heavily Republican Carroll and Frederick counties up to the Pennsylvania border.
Heroin deaths have increased across age groups, races and gender, and in all regions of the state. In early 2015, Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and created a task force to investigate the epidemic and bolster the state’s response. Here, a series of graphics based on data from the Heroin & Opioid Emergency Task Force’s 2014 interim report illustrate the heroin crisis in Maryland.
Comptroller Peter Franchot and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford, standing in for Gov. Larry Hogan, once again criticized state agencies’ procurement processes at the Board of Public Works meeting Wednesday, challenging a Maryland Transit Administration health insurance single-bid contract.
A bevy of new state laws are going into effect on Thursday, from 70 mph speed limits on some highways to easier divorce for couples without children.
Democratic lawmakers at a Maryland budget panel on Thursday urged representatives of Gov. Larry Hogan to use millions in unexpected state revenue to bolster supplemental schools funding.
Maryland’s State Board of Education on Tuesday confirmed plans to release PARCC assessment scores in late October and early December. The PARCC, which stands for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, was administered for the first time in 11 states and the District of Columbia in the spring as a part of the Common Core Standards Initiative, a widespread but controversial effort to measure education in the United States.
The Civil War divided many communities and families in Maryland, according to state historians, and mementos venerating forces for both the South and the North began to appear throughout the state in the early 1900s. Some would now like to see the Confederate monuments moved.
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