Category: Education
Is Maryland’s ‘Blueprint’ the path to better schools? We asked school board candidates
By Marwa Barakat and Colin McNamara A 10-year, $30 billion plan out of Annapolis, the Blueprint...
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On school safety, Maryland school board candidates push for officers, mental health services
By Emily R. Condon and Colin McNamara In Montgomery County, school board candidate Brenda M. Diaz...
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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...
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Support for book bans varies in Maryland school board races
By Adam Hudacek and Tolu Talabi Colt Black is many things: a mortician, an emergency medical...
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On gender identity in schools, Maryland school board candidates are divided
The culture war erupting around the nation about transgender rights is being fought in Maryland’s school districts, too.School boards that set policy for those districts face a dilemma: Do they prioritize a student’s autonomy over their identity or the parents’ right to know who that child really is?
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Phones Off, Focus On: How Maryland schools are cracking down on cell phones this fall
Classrooms across Maryland are a bit more quiet this fall, with students under new rules to keep their phones off and out of sight.
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New state schools superintendent has a super-hard job
State superintendent of schools might sound like a really important job – but it has less power than its importance. It is much like being prime minister of one of those coalition governments in parliamentary systems made up of splinter parties with conflicting ideologies.
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Finding a new president for Towson University has made a mostly good start
Towson University has picked its Presidential Search and Screening Committee (TUPSC) to choose its...
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Book banning resonates as an issue in Maryland school board races
Resting on the shelves of some public schools nationwide are two memoirs from LGBTQ+ authors detailing the growing pains they lived through while growing up and finding themselves.
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State Board of Education rescinds mask mandate, pending approval from state legislators
The Maryland State Board of Education Tuesday lifted the statewide mask mandate for public schools, allowing the state’s 23 county school boards and Baltimore to each decide how they want to handle masking. The board’s decision could begin as early as March 1. Before the change can take effect it must be approved by the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review, a mixed panel of state legislators. The committee announced it will meet to review the board regulation Friday afternoon.
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Back to school with a new Blueprint and lots of chiefs
This is an expanded version of a column that appears in the September issue of The Business...
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Franchot backs education reform, but not mandated Blueprint
Like several of the nine Democratic candidates for governor, Comptroller Peter Franchot makes improving K-12 education part of his standard stump speech.
But Franchot refuses to even mention the Kirwan Commission and the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future the legislature enacted over the governor’s veto that establishes massive changes for public schools and pumps billions more into education.
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