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Baltimore County's new schools chief won over skeptics in Houston
In the crowded glass and steel lobby of the Houston school headquarters, Principal Susan Monaghan paused briefly to touch the shoulder of her boss, a man with far less experience in the education field and young enough to have been her student.
"I am OK,...Tags: Chesterfield County, Students, Human Interest, Michael Jordan, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Suspensions high in Baltimore County
Baltimore County reported the highest suspension rate of any Maryland district apart from the Eastern Shore in the last school year, despite its efforts to focus on discipline that doesn't require students to miss classroom time.
About 10,000 students...Tags: Punishment, Students, Human Interest, Joe A. Hairston, Dorchester County
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Grasmick to overhaul teacher training at Towson University
Several months after Nancy S. Grasmick left her job as state superintendent of schools, Michelle Rhee, the former schools chief in Washington, spoke in Baltimore and let a secret slip.
She told the crowd at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall that Grasmick...Tags: Students, Michelle Rhee, Colleges and Universities, Nancy Grasmick, Towson University
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Localities, schools, colleges face uncertain budget picture
Local government and university leaders are struggling to craft spending plans amid uncertainty over the state budget — and how a package of threatened cuts might affect schools, roads, public safety and other basic services. Officials throughout...Tags: Howard County, Budgets and Budgeting, Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, Justice System
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School board voted against giving Hairston a new contract
A month before longtime Baltimore County school Superintendent Joe A. Hairston said he will step down when his contract ends in June, the school board voted in private not to extend his employment.
Hairston officially notified school board President...Tags: Hurricane Irene (2011), Joe A. Hairston, Nancy Grasmick, Baltimore County
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Trial begins in federal lawsuit alleging continued segregation at Md. universities
Alumni and students from Maryland's four historically black universities took their long-held view that the state perpetuates racial segregation to court Tuesday, arguing that their institutions are underfunded. The federal lawsuit calls on the state...Tags: Laws, Students, Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Civil Laws
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City schools with federal turnaround grants have mixed results
Once students hurled computers out the windows at Calverton Middle School, but today they are learning on state-of-the-art technology that has flooded into the West Baltimore school. Once teachers couldn't wait to transfer out of a place where students...Tags: Students, Arts, Examinations, Human Interest, Government Aid
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State's student homeless population doubles
For a few hours after school, Ryan Johnson is just like most 16-year-olds. He lounges on the couch with his favorite Xbox game or checks his Facebook page.
But then reality sets in. He decamps from his cousins' house for the Howard County cold-weather...Tags: Prince George's County, Anne Arundel County, Severna Park, Homelessness, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Builder pleads guilty in investment scheme
A Baltimore home builder pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with a construction investment scheme that defrauded victims of more than $14 million, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office said. Brian McCloskey, 44, spent at least two years — from...Tags: Punishment, Credit Ratings, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Finance
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City pre-K student brings gun to school
A pre-kindergarten student at Northwood Elementary School in Baltimore brought a small gun to school Friday morning, according to school officials. A teacher discovered the weapon and notified administrators who called the school police. School police...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Parenting, Interior Policy, Northwood
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For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice
Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently.
She has squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is...Tags: Services and Shopping, American Academy of Pediatrics, Books and Magazines, Literature, Literature
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Simon P. 'Sy' Jarosinski Jr., engineer
![Simon Paul "Sy" Jarosinski Jr., a retired aeronautical engineer and former member of the Baltimore County Liquor Board, died April 30 of ischemic cardiomyopathy at his Timonium home. He was 90.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-05/69756616-04102703.jpg "Simon Paul "Sy\" Jarosinski Jr., a retired aeronautical engineer and former member of the Baltimore County Liquor Board, died April 30 of ischemic cardiomyopathy at his Timonium home. He was 90.")
Simon Paul "Sy" Jarosinski Jr., a retired aeronautical engineer and former member of the Baltimore County Liquor Board, died April 30 of ischemic cardiomyopathy at his Timonium home. He was 90.
The son of a Baltimore City councilman and a homemaker, Mr....Tags: Timonium, First Aid, Roman Catholicism, Science and Technology, Patterson Park
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