From Harford County Public Schools: The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) recently announced the finalists for the 2009-10 Maryland Distinguished Scholar Award, which include three students from Harford County Public Schools (HCPS). The finalists from HCPS are Alex Hutcheson, senior at C. Milton Wright High School; Drew Thatcher, senior at C. Milton Wright High School; […]
Bruce: Who Should Pay For New Schools?
The following was submitted by Morita Bruce: Do you support a tax increase to pay for recently-built schools? Should Red Pump Elementary School or other school construction projects be stopped? If your answer is NO to either of these, then oppose Bill 09-29, School Development Impact Fee, because this Bill stops the school impact fees […]
Maryland Counties To Push For Changes In Education Funding Requirement
Continuing to feel the economic crunch, Maryland county governments will be looking for new ways around a long-standing state law requiring them to fund their portion of local education budgets according to a formula known as Maintenance of Effort (MOE). Maintenance of Effort was designed to ensure that county governments provide school systems with at […]
Harford County Commission for Women presents the 1st Annual Women’s Conference
(Bel Air, MD – March 11, 2009) – – The 1st Annual Women’s Conference will be held Saturday, March 21, 2009, 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM at Patterson Mill Middle-High School, located at 85 Patterson Mill Road, Bel Air. The Conference will feature leading women of Harford County to speak on topics such as politics, […]
Gov. O’Malley Asks, “How Can We Improve Our Schools?”
Per this form-letter email to County Councilman Dion Guthrie, feel free to click the link and tell Gov. O’Malley what can be done to improve our schools: From: Governor Martin O’Malley To: guthrie, dion Sent: Thu Feb 19 15:09:11 2009 Subject: How can we improve our schools? Dear Dion, I’ve been getting a lot of […]
2009 Summer Programs For High School Students
2009 SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS MIT announces its MITES Program, (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science), a challenging 6 week summer program that prepares promising rising seniors for careers in engineering and science. If you are selected, all educational, housing, meals and activity costs are covered. You must, however, pay for your own […]
Student Voice: Baltimore City School Student Sees State Setting Youth Up For Failure
By Raven Moniqu’e Coleman (a Junior at Doris M. Johnson High School in Baltimore City) I bet the state is content with many of Baltimore City’s students having a bleak future. In 2000, Judge Joseph H. Kaplan ordered that the state issue adequate funding to the city after he deemed that students would need to […]
Reason #5823 not to be mean to your teachers…
…because they might sue you. That’s what is happening to a few Dartmouth students that evidently pissed off their lecturer. Below is an email the teacher, Priya Venkatesan, sent her class: Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:56:35 From: Priya Venkatesan Subject: WRIT.005.17.18-WI08: Possible lawsuit Dear former class members of Science, Technology and Society: I tried […]
