The Board of Education voted (7-4) during a four-hour meeting on Feb. 24 to approve a $2.495 billion budget for Baltimore County Public Schools’ 2027 fiscal year, which begins July 1. According…
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BCPS Superintendent Rogers To Retire at End of Fiscal Year
Days after securing approval of a $2.495 billion budget for the school system, Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers announced on Feb. 26 that she will retire as head of…
BCPS Superintendent Rogers a Finalist for National Leadership Award
Myriam Rogers, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public School (BCPS), is one of two superintendents in the running for a Women in School Leadership Award that recognizes exceptional contributions to K-12 public education….
It’s Back to School at BCPS
Aug. 25 is the first day of classes for Baltimore County Public School (BCPS) students, which means life will be different on the roads, in households and in schools. We can certainly…
Cursive Writing Instruction Returns to BCPS Under a Pilot Program
Twenty-four Baltimore County elementary schools will participate in a new pilot cursive writing program in the fall, Baltimore County Public Schools officials announced. The pilot will begin Nov. 3 and run through…
Boosting Teacher Diversity in Baltimore County Public Schools
New effort aims to enhance the teacher pipeline and promote greater diversity across Baltimore County In a new effort to enhance the teacher pipeline and promote greater diversity within the teaching profession…
Myriam Yarbrough: ‘We Will Improve and Accelerate Student Learning’
The next superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) is Myriam Yarbrough, a home-grown educator, who began her educational career in 1996 as a chemistry teacher at Woodlawn High School and currently…
Navigating At-Home Lessons for Students During a Pandemic
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 class, and…
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 various indicators…
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 help shape…
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 English, as…
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 typical high…
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 leaders, students…
Student 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 Jr., a…
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 the school…