Tag: Maryland
Maryland’s pre-K expansion plan proves to be...
By Capital News Service | July 9, 2024 | News | 0 |
Finding child care in Maryland is hard. Finding th...
By Capital News Service | July 2, 2024 | News | 0 |
Child care is scarce in Maryland and the nation — ...
By Capital News Service | June 25, 2024 | News | 0 |
Will Maryland’s Blueprint for education work? An o...
By Capital News Service | May 14, 2024 | News | 0 |
‘Unrealistic’ and ‘Unfunded̵...
By Capital News Service | May 7, 2024 | News | 0 |
On child care, a search for local solutions to a national problem
by Capital News Service | July 16, 2024 | News | 0 |
“The U.S. treats child care like a private market good, much more like a restaurant or a gym, than it does like a social or public piece of infrastructure, like a library or a school,” said Haspel, author of “Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It.”
Read MoreMaryland’s pre-K expansion plan proves to be unpopular with child care providers
by Capital News Service | July 9, 2024 | News | 0 |
In a spring survey of the state’s child care providers conducted by the Local News Network, only 12.9% of respondents said they plan to or were already involved in the pre-K program created under the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, the state’s expansive education reform plan.
Read MoreFinding child care in Maryland is hard. Finding the right child care is even harder.
by Capital News Service | July 2, 2024 | News | 0 |
The complications of finding child care in Maryland often leave families waiting for a place for their child, and that can lead to trouble, said Doug Lent, communications director for Maryland Family Network, which helps parents find child care and helps providers manage their businesses.
Read MoreChild care is scarce in Maryland and the nation — and the pandemic made matters worse
by Capital News Service | June 25, 2024 | News | 0 |
The COVID-19 pandemic made matters worse. Maryland lost 15% of its child care providers and nearly 7% of its child care slots from Jan. 1, 2020, through Jan. 1, 2024, according to state statistics retrieved by the Local News Network. Those stats show that the number of child care slots in Maryland fell by 15,152 in those four years.
Read MoreWill Maryland’s Blueprint for education work? An oversight board — and district officials — will be watching
by Capital News Service | May 14, 2024 | News | 0 |
Implementing the Blueprint hasn’t gone exactly as planned so far. Deadlines for criteria and implementation plans have been extended at least three times. And in district-level Blueprint plans submitted this spring, school officials across the state expressed a variety of concerns.
Read More‘Unrealistic’ and ‘Unfunded’: Maryland’s Blueprint for education has counties concerned
by Capital News Service | May 7, 2024 | News | 0 |
You might think spending $16.6 billion more in state funds from 2024 through 2029 — and billions more after that — would be enough to give Maryland a world-class education system. But that’s not what many people at the state’s local school districts think.
Read MoreGov. Moore confident in Maryland’s play to keep Commanders
by Capital News Service | April 24, 2024 | Governor | 0 |
Amid a jurisdictional tug-of-war over the future home of the Washington Commanders, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Wednesday struck an assured posture on his state’s ability to keep the team in Prince George’s County.
Read MoreMaryland team on NASA project to examine ocean, atmosphere
by Capital News Service | April 24, 2024 | News | 0 |
Scientists can use PACE’s data, which was first released on April 11, for both short-term monitoring and long-term climate change analysis, according to Werdell. PACE is set to send data back to Earth 12 to 15 times every day.
Read More5 Places to Appreciate Nature in Maryland This Earth Day
by Capital News Service | April 22, 2024 | News | 0 |
Earth Day is an annual holiday that celebrates the Earth and raises awareness about the need to protect the environment.
Read MoreMaryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announces a string of convictions in vulnerable adult abuse cases
by Capital News Service | April 5, 2024 | News | 0 |
Three cases of vulnerable adult abuse at the hands of caretakers have been uncovered in Anne Arundel, Howard, and Baltimore counties. Today, Attorney General Anthony Brown, the Medicaid Fraud and Vulnerable Victims Unit , and the AARP announced a plan for legislation to give the MFVVU more funding to uncover more cases of vulnerable adult abuse.
Read MoreMaryland’s teacher shortage: Will the Blueprint’s plan for better pay, training do enough?
by Capital News Service | March 18, 2024 | News | 1 |
The U.S. Department of Education keeps a Teacher Shortage Areas database — and it found that for the current school year, Maryland was short of teachers in 28 subjects, which the state defines as “areas of certification.” That’s up from 17 five years earlier. Some teacher certification areas — such as English as a second language, health science and special education — are short on teachers from pre-K through the 12th grade.
Read MoreMaryland officials OK more Purple Line money, but not gladly
by Capital News Service | March 13, 2024 | News | 0 |
Gov. Wes Moore and the state’s chief financial officers approved nearly half a billion dollars in extra funds for the Purple Line on Wednesday, even as they condemned the embattled project’s mounting delays and escalating costs.
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