NEWS
By Melissa Harris | June 19, 2008
A 13-year-old boy admitted yesterday attempting a fourth-degree sex offense against a Calverton Elementary/Middle staff member who was putting in extra hours at the West Baltimore school on a Sunday afternoon. Master Zakia Mahasa put the boy, a former Calverton student whose name The Sun is withholding because he is a juvenile, on indefinite probation and ordered him to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation and to follow the evaluator's recommendations. Mahasa also postponed a second case involving the May 4 break-in at the school, which immediately preceded the attack.
NEWS
May 8, 2008
It's a tale of two different realities of Baltimore's school system. On Tuesday, Kristin Covaleskie, a fourth-grade teacher at Northwood Elementary School, was celebrated - with applause from her students and gifts from her supervisors - as the city's Teacher of the Year. A day earlier, two 13-year-old students at Calverton Elementary/Middle were arrested when they showed up for class after allegedly breaking into the school and attacking a staff member who was there on her own time over the weekend.
NEWS
By Sara Neufeld and Annie Linskey | May 7, 2008
A staff member at Calverton Elementary/Middle was putting in extra hours at the West Baltimore school Sunday afternoon when two 13-year-old boys broke into the building and one tried to rape her, police confirmed yesterday. Realizing that her attacker was unarmed, police said, the woman fought back, and both the boys - identified as students at the school - fled. When they returned for class Monday, they were arrested and charged as juveniles with attempted first-degree rape, attempted robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and trespassing, police said.
NEWS
By SARA NEUFELD | May 29, 2006
Parents of children at Lafayette Elementary and Calverton Middle schools in West Baltimore are pleading with city school system officials not to send a high school to operate in their building, saying the move would trigger a gang conflict and expose young children to unnecessary violence. The Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts is scheduled to move to the Lafayette/Calverton building when the Southwestern High School complex, where it is currently located, closes this summer.
NEWS
By SARA NEUFELD | January 25, 2006
Last summer, Baltimore school officials made a deal with 75 overage pupils who had failed eighth grade at Calverton Middle School: Show up for an extra-long school day, pass your classes and a battery of tests, and in November you can move on to high school. But November came and the pupils were told to wait until December. In December, they were told to wait until January. Last week, the teens and their parents say, word came from the system's area academic office for middle schools that the pupils are staying put even though 65 of them have met their end of the deal.
NEWS
January 21, 2004
On Friday January 16, 2004 VANITY A. , beloved wife of the late Clarence R. Maxey; loving mother of AntoinetteDickson of Bowie, MD, Cestaine Glover of Columbia, MD; devoted sister of Gary and George Goode and Clara Parker; cherished grandmother of Maya, Matthew and Zaria Glover. Relatives and friends may call at the First Baptist Church of Guilford on Thursday January 22, 2004 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon at which time services will be held. Interment on Friday January 23, 2004 at Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY at 1 p.m. Arrangements by Witzke Funeral Homes, Inc. of Coumbia.
NEWS
By Dan Fesperman | January 12, 2004
The man looked Middle Eastern, the callers said, and he was skulking around the American Legion Bridge on the Capital Beltway. Heavy traffic whizzed past, crossing the Potomac on a night when tensions were already high because of a big event on the Washington Mall. Maryland State Police arrived to question the man, and his story didn't add up. When three friends came to retrieve him, their stories seemed just as curious. The mystery deepened when one of their names turned up on a watch list for terrorism.
NEWS
By Tom Pelton | April 29, 2003
City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr., Mayor Martin O'Malley and city school administrators are working to create a stepped-up effort to return truant children to school. Starting Monday, the city will begin a pilot program at Calverton Middle School on the west side in which a school police officer will drive a van around the neighborhood near the school, picking up truant pupils and returning them to the school, according to city officials. At the school, the children will be evaluated by social workers to determine if they have problems that can be addressed, said Deputy Mayor Jeanne Hitchcock.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | December 7, 2000
A 13-year-old boy was arrested yesterday and charged in the rape of a 12-year-old girl at Calverton Middle School in West Baltimore last month. Police said the boy, whom the victim knew by his first name, pulled her into a faculty bathroom and assaulted her the afternoon of Nov. 15. The girl reported the assault and was taken to a local hospital where she was examined, police said. The boy was charged as a juvenile with second-degree rape, a second-degree sex offense and second-degree assault, police said.
NEWS
By Liz Bowie | December 2, 1998
A Maryland child-advocacy group is recommending state officials take a more aggressive approach to fixing the state's most troubled schools, including intervening when the efforts of local school boards fail.A report released today by Advocates for Children and Youth says that at many of the schools identified two or three years ago as failing, test scores have not risen significantly, particularly in Baltimore.Since 1994, the state has put 89 schools in Maryland, including 79 in Baltimore, on a list of failing schools based on their performance on statewide tests that measure reading and math skills.