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August 25, 2008
Here are the latest of three polls on the presidential race: Obama: 49 percent; McCain: 43 percent ABC News-Washington Post poll, conducted Aug. 19-22 with 916 registered voters. Sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points Obama: 45 percent; McCain: 45 percent Gallup Poll Daily tracking survey, conducted Aug. 21-23 with 2,625 registered voters. Sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. Obama: 46 percent; McCain: 43 percent Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll, conducted Aug. 21-23 with 3,000 likely voters.
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By Susan Gvozdas | July 16, 2008
Anne Arundel County posted gains in 11 out of the 12 categories of the Maryland School Assessment, according to results released by the state yesterday, and school officials are crediting a greater focus on data and teacher collaboration. Seventh-graders saw the biggest improvements on the annual tests given to children in grades three through eight, with the number of students scoring at "advanced" or "proficient" levels rising 9 percentage points over last year in reading and 7.4 points in math.
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By Phillip McGowan | March 19, 2008
Amid growing economic uncertainty, more than half of Anne Arundel County residents said their salaries are not keeping up with the cost of living and that they are facing difficulty in paying rising gas and electric charges, according to a poll released yesterday. The economy surged to the top of respondents' concerns in the biannual survey conducted by Anne Arundel Community College, with nearly half -- 47 percent -- reporting that they are having difficulty affording $1.3 billion in state tax increases passed in November and fewer than ever indicating confidence in the county's economy.
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By BLOOMBERG NEWS | January 10, 2008
The pollsters have some explaining to do. Widespread forecasts that Barack Obama would defeat Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential primary proved faulty Tuesday night, with Clinton, a New York senator, winning by 3 percentage points. Polls released in the days before the vote showed the Illinois senator with leads ranging from 5 percentage points in a survey by Boston's Suffolk University to 13 points found by USA Today/Gallup. It was a "fiasco," in the words of Peyton M. Craighill, ABC News' deputy polling director.
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By Janet Hook | December 7, 2007
WASHINGTON -- One-third of Americans surveyed want to deprive illegal immigrants of social services, including public schooling and emergency room health care, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll finds. Even among Democrats, traditionally a party more welcoming of immigrants, 22 percent of voters surveyed would deny illegal immigrants access to services even as basic as emergency health care and public education. Still, in a sign of the ambivalence among voters about the emotionally charged issue, a strong bipartisan majority - 60 percent - favors allowing illegal immigrants who have not committed crimes to become citizens if they pay fines, learn English and meet other requirements.
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By Ruma Kumar | August 29, 2007
More Anne Arundel County high-schoolers passed state English, algebra and biology tests than last school year, though African-American and Hispanic students' performance continues to lag, according to data released yesterday by the Maryland State Department of Education. More than 7,500 county students took the annual High School Assessments, given at the end of courses in Algebra I, American government, biology and English II to help the state measure its progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Law. The state released only countywide pass rates; school-level data were unavailable yesterday afternoon.
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By Madison Park | June 17, 2007
Harford County elementary and middle school students turned in solid performances on this year's Maryland School Assessment, with most schools exceeding the state average in the annual tests, and one school's entire fourth grade passing the math and reading tests. Jarrettsville Elementary's principal attributed the fourth-graders' 100 percent passing rate to the academic environment and development fostered by the students, parents and teachers at the school. Overall, students in Harford elementary schools and middle schools made modest gains in math and reading.
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By John-John Williams IV | June 15, 2007
Maybe it has been the years of emphasis Howard County schools have placed at the pre-school and kindergarten level. It could be increased interventions -- one school suggests that offering more field trips increases vocabulary. One thing is for sure: Fourth-graders in the county recorded the biggest increases on this year's Maryland School Assessments. Fourth-graders had the highest percentage of students in the county scoring at proficient or above on the assessments -- 93 percent in reading and 91 percent in math.
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By Ruma Kumar | June 15, 2007
Though there are bright spots, most minority students in Anne Arundel County schools continue to lag behind their white peers on high-stakes state exams, despite new efforts to train teachers and administrators to focus on closing the achievement gap. Overall, the county posted modest gains on the annual Maryland School Assessments, exceeding state averages by 3 to 13 percentage points on the reading and math tests, according to scores released this...
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By Gina Davis | June 14, 2007
Baltimore County's elementary school students overall scored slightly above state averages in this year's reading and math assessments and showed steady, if modest, gains countywide. But a significant gap remains between the county's lowest- and highest-performing schools, according to preliminary results of this year's statewide assessments released yesterday. For example, while all third-graders at Summit Park, Timonium and Chadwick elementary schools passed the reading exam, only about a third of the third-graders at Riverview, Mars Estates and Featherbed Lane elementaries passed.