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Carroll County schools
County teachers ‘upset’ by raise; increase lowest in more than decade
- Carroll teachers are incensed that they will get only a 1 percent raise next year, the smallest increase in more than a decade, negotiators said.
Five school projects dominate commissioners’ budget plan
- Five major school projects would receive about $150 million under the budget unveiled Thursday by Carroll commissioners.
After-school program in danger due to next year’s budget cuts
- Parents are outraged that an after-school study and mentoring program credited with dramatically improving students’ grades could get cut from next year’s budget.
County raises school meal costs in face of rising gas, food prices
- Rising gas and food costs have some Baltimore-area school systems bumping up the price of school meals.
NAACP member appointed to the Carroll school board
- Virginia Harrison, a Carroll NAACP member, will fill a county school board seat vacated after Jeffrey Morse resigned over his use of a racial slur.
Carroll schools look to buy defibrillators
- Carroll hopes to be among the first counties in the state with devices in every school that can jump-start students’ and teachers’ stopped hearts.
Carroll County school board vacancy may go unfilled until election
- Carroll’s school board will continue with one fewer member for now after Jeffrey Morse resigned over his use of the “N” word.
Parents: Drug, alcohol policy targets athletes
- Student athletes are unfairly targeted by a Carroll policy in which they can be forced off a team if they’re with others using drugs or alcohol, parents say, even if they’re caught with neither.
School commissioner’s pay for substitute teaching hit
- Carroll school board members who work as substitute teachers to get a close-up view of the classroom don’t get paid to do so.
Carroll’s abstinence education under fire
- Carroll’s abstinence-based sex education is outdated and unrealistic, students and parents say.