NEWS
By Nick Madigan | January 6, 2009
Baltimore County's list of requests for this year's General Assembly is focused on education and public safety, County Executive James T. Smith Jr. told state legislators at a meeting yesterday in Towson. Despite reduced state revenue projections and the impact of the national economic collapse, he urged lawmakers to continue to support the legislature's $325 million commitment to a statewide public-school construction program for fiscal year 2010. County public schools have requested $84.5 million in state funds for construction and renovations, he said, including projects at Parkville High School, Catonsville High and Milford Mill Academy that would account for $20.4 million.
NEWS
By Jonathan Pitts | March 21, 2009
A Harford County middle school teacher was arrested yesterday, accused of using the Internet to solicit sex from a 15-year-old boy, state police said. Officers from the state police computer crimes unit charged Jonathan S. Dick, 43, of Bel Air, a physical education teacher at Fallston Middle School, with two counts of solicitation of a minor. Police said they began an investigation of Dick, who is also a boys lacrosse coach at Fallston High School, in February after receiving complaints from the parents of a Prince George's County boy. The parents discovered "disturbing sexual text messages" between the boy and Dick, according to a police statement.
NEWS
May 6, 2007
The Carroll County Board of Education will meet at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the board offices, 125 N. Court St., Westminster, to interview 22 candidates for a board seat left vacant by the resignation of Thomas G. Hiltz. The candidates are: Diana L. Bennett, Valerie Murphy Hickey, Maureen Norton, Xiomara Pierre, Finksburg; John Carr, Linwood; Michele Kraus Carroll, Debra L. Cromwell, Marriottsville; Stephanie Dahlquist, Tom Rhoads, Manchester; Barbara A. Gunther, David H. Roush, Timothy Schlauch, Jeff Sheehan, Debra J. Tervala, Westminster; Virginia Harrison, Michele Hughes, Sykesville; Lee Ann Leshko-Lindsay, Mount Airy; George E. Maloney, New Windsor; Jeffrey L. Morse, Taneytown; George Potter, Union Bridge; Stanley Prouser, Eldersburg; C. Scott Stone, Hampstead.
NEWS
By JOHN R. LEOPOLD | June 17, 2007
Our Anne Arundel County fiscal 2008 budget, a collaborative effort between my administration and a unanimous County Council, makes a historic commitment to the education of our children. Half of the tax money that will be spent will go toward our schools, a level unmatched in the history of charter government. We have focused our resources on the classroom, funded the Advancement Via Individual Determination program, expanded the International Baccalaureate program and promoted a safer, more secure learning environment with additional security provided by our Police Department.
NEWS
May 27, 2007
Poster contest awards are Tuesday The Carroll County Youth Intervention Officer Program and Carroll County public schools will hold their third annual "Safety Is Only a Click Away -- Buckle Up" fourth grade Poster Contest Awards Night at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Winters Mill High School on Gorsuch Road. Law enforcement officers from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, Maryland State Police and Westminster Police Department work together with the schools to provide safety and substance abuse prevention programs to students.
NEWS
By MICHAEL OLESKER | November 18, 1999
SOMETIMES prosperity's a bummer. The new technology produces jobs everywhere, and the old professions become yesterday's business. The schools, for example: Who wants to teach science at scrub wages when private industry's calling with money to make the eyes go round?Consider a few numbers: In all of Maryland colleges last year, a total of one student graduated with the intention to teach high school physics. In 2002, the state will need 11,000 new teachers to fill the expected void left by baby-boom retirees and increasing enrollment.
NEWS
By Mike Farabaugh | December 16, 1999
Four students from Francis Scott Key High were rushed to Carroll County General Hospital yesterday after ingesting a prescription drug that one of the teen-agers took to school, police and school officials said.None of the students was believed to have a life-threatening condition, said Lt. Terry Katz, state police barracks commander in Westminster. The students, all juveniles, were not identified because of privacy laws. Their ages were not available last night.One student was admitted to Carroll County General in Westminster for treatment, one was treated and released, and two were being evaluated last night, a hospital spokeswoman said.
NEWS
December 11, 1998
THE LEVELING OFF of Carroll scores on the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program tests did not come without warning. Brian L. Lockard, then-county superintendent, admitted last February "we've lost ground already." He was referring to scores on the SAT test, taken by college-bound Carroll seniors, which had dipped below the previous year.The MSPAP composite score of Carroll third- , fifth- and eighth-grade pupils taking the statewide tests last spring actually rose -- by less than 2 percent.
NEWS
By Jamie Smith | August 13, 1998
They come from across the country, some with years of teaching experience and many fresh out of college, but all 700 with one thing in common: They are teachers new to the Baltimore County public schools. Yesterday, many of them met for the first time.The new instructors gathered at Chesapeake High School in Essex for the first of a four-day, optional orientation program that introduces them to the system, familiarizes them with requirements, tests and expectations -- and helps ease first-day-of-class fears.
NEWS
By Steven Kreytak | May 18, 1998
Dick and Sherry Wright remember when they thought Jim Rouse's dream for his planned community of Columbia had finally taken hold.Dick Wright was teaching at Columbia's Wilde Lake High School 1980 and was in charge of picking a student to be the senior graduation speaker."