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Baltimore County school board cuts time for public input
- Baltimore County's school board will field public comments just once per month in a policy shift members said will make meetings more efficient but opponents said stifles input.
Baltimore County schools name chief academic officer
- A former administrator for the Baltimore City Public Schools System has been tapped as the new chief academic officer for Baltimore County Public Schools.
Baltimore County schools move forward with renovations list
- In what critics are calling a not-well-thought-out decision, the Baltimore County Board of Education voted Tuesday evening to forge ahead on a list of renovation projects that will be paid for with money previously earmarked for the expansion of Loch Raven High School.
Lawmakers, parents challenge school improvement projects
- Baltimore County lawmakers and parents are questioning $12 million earmarked for repaving school parking lots and tennis courts, saying greater needs should be funded first.
Smith to reallocate $12M in ex-high school project
- Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith has moved to reallocate about $12 million after the Baltimore County Board of Education voted to step away from the proposed expansion of Loch Raven High School,
Summer means academic slides for many children, study shows
- With school ending this week, thousands of students statewide will spend their summers losing a lot of the reading and math skills they learned.
Public schools requiring students to prove residency
- Parents and guardians of Baltimore County public school students entering sixth and ninth grades next fall will first have to prove their children live in the county, under a new policy.
Lawmakers question need for charter school
- Local lawmakers fear Baltimore County’s first charter school will do little more than divert funding and teachers from the public school system to educate students currently enrolled in private schools.
Settlement would offer homeless kids school choice
- Baltimore County school administrators have agreed to do more to help homeless students get to class in a tentative settlement of a federal class-action lawsuit, officials said.
Recognition offers opportunity, county’s teacher of the year says
- An educator at Franklin High School in Reisterstown, who believes veteran educators can play a key role in teacher retention and that to achieve on standardized tests students must be consistently challenged to think, has been named Baltimore County Public Schools’ Teacher of the Year.
- An educator at Franklin High School in Reisterstown, who believes veteran educators can play a key role in teacher retention and that to achieve on standardized tests students must be consistently challenged to think, has been named Baltimore County Public Schools’ Teacher of the Year.
Board kills addition to Ridge Ruxton
- Baltimore County school officials will scrap plans to provide a 400-student addition to Ridge Ruxton School in Towson in support of building an elementary school next to the 127-student special needs facility.
- Baltimore County school officials will scrap plans to provide a 400-student addition to Ridge Ruxton School in Towson in support of building an elementary school next to the 127-student special needs facility.
County is cautioned to ‘go slow’ on Ridge Ruxton School additions
- An official whose agency advocates public policy affecting people with disabilities says Baltimore County needs to pull back on its proposal to add 400 students to Ridge Ruxton School.
High-ranking administrator leaves county school system
- A high-ranking Baltimore County Public Schools educator who was fired from her previous post in a New Mexico school system has abruptly left her job here as well.
