On Sept. 8, the first day of class for Baltimore County Public Schools, there were no exuberant students waiting for the school bus, no principals and teachers welcoming students to […]
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Category: Education
State Moves to Star Rating to Present Public School Performance
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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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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