The Maryland State Department of Education has released its latest version of a school performance and accountability plan, which now assigns each school between one and five stars based on […]
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Category: Education
Dissipating Diversity on the Baltimore County Board of Education
The Baltimore County Board of Education, which develops and reviews policy for a 113,000-student population that is 60 percent minority, has just one minority board member. Those decisions board members […]
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High School Students Perform Lower Than Expected on PARCC Tests
Last year, students around the state began taking a new, more rigorous test, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC), to assess their learning in math and […]
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A Struggle to Graduate
Dayne Guest is a tall, popular, athletic 18-year-old with model good looks. He graduated on June 6 with hundreds of other seniors from Western School of Technology after enjoying the […]
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Minority mentoring, new magnet schools coming to area schools
Superintendent S. Dallas Dance announced in his 2016 State of the Schools that new magnet programs were coming to area schools—welcome news for the more than 1,250 community members, business […]
Read moreStudent Participation, Performances Steal the Show
Students were front and center throughout the State of Schools event on March 23, serving as greeters, performers, and speakers. They also created artwork for a silent auction. Danny Hawkins […]
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Superintendent Dance Gets Another 4 Years
A line had formed outside the Baltimore County Board of Education’s Greenwood headquarters in a light snow, well before the scheduled start of a Jan. 12 public hearing called by […]
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Woodlawn School to Close at End of Year
The Baltimore County Board of Education has voted to close the county’s first and only public charter school at the end of the current school year. Scholars K-8 School, which […]
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