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Captured in a metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia primary school, this photograph depicts a typical classroom scene, where an audience of school children were seated on the floor before a teacher at the front of the room, who was reading an illustrated storybook, during one of the scheduled classroom sessions. Assisting the instructor were two female students to her left, and a male student on her right, who was holding up the book, while the seated classmates were raising their hands to answer questions related to the story just read.
Schools brace for challenges as once-in-a-lifetime cash runs out
April 18, 2023 -

Cinque Culver had a feeling that his children’s D.C. school would be forced to take a budget cut next year. But he wasn’t expecting the six-figure number he saw when he and other members of the school’s parent-teacher organization got the projections. The $256,827 cut, about 4 percent of Beers Elementary School’s overall budget, was deeper than expected — costing the school positions including an intervention coach, a special-education teacher and a music instructor, budget sheets show.

Read More: Washington Post
Frederick adds, improves park facilities in traditionally overlooked areas
April 18, 2023 -

Tucked away on a quiet street, Frederick’s Overlook Park is easy to miss. With a pavilion, a basketball court, tennis courts, and a sloping asphalt trail, the park off Himes Avenue has many of the amenities of other parks in the city. But behind the tennis courts, six brown rectangles sit near the tree line.

 

Read More: Frederick News-Post
Baltimore County police collect over 200 guns in buyback event
April 18, 2023 -

The Baltimore County Police Department collected over 200 guns during Saturday’s firearm buyback event. Police partnered with the NAACP, Baltimore County chapter to host the event. Participants exchanged the guns for gift cards. Officials said the goal was to make communities safer. “It doesn’t matter if the guns come from any other state, any other county, we just want to get the guns off the street because guns can travel to Baltimore to kill individuals. We just want them off the street,” said Danita Tolson, president of the Baltimore County NAACP branch.

 

 

Read More: WBAL News Radio
Baltimore County Public Schools finds itself one board member short again with superintendent search underway
April 18, 2023 -

The Baltimore County Public Schools Board of Education once again finds itself missing a member. The incomplete board will be charged with selecting the district’s new superintendent. BCPS swore in its three newly appointed board members, Tiara Booker-Dwyer, Tiffany Frempong and Emory Young, on Friday and Monday. All members were recommended by the school board nominating commission, headed by Cindy Sexton, and selected by Gov. Wes Moore’s office.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
New dashboard tracks every fatal crash in Maryland
April 17, 2023 -

It happened, on average, more than once a day last year. In fact, preliminary data shows that for the second year in a row, exactly 563 people died on Maryland roads in 2022. The new numbers were released Wednesday by the state of Maryland. In 2022, 135 pedestrians died on state roads, up by four from 2021. Another 11 bicyclists were killed, up five from 2021.

Read More: Maryland Matters
Maryland stocks on abortion drug as court temporarily blocks restrictions
April 17, 2023 -

Maryland has began to stockpile on the abortion pill “mifepristone” after the Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a court decision that prevents patients from obtaining the drug. Gov. Wes Moore, Lt. Gov Aruna Miller and the Maryland Department of Health announced a partnership for the purchase of a “substantial amount” of mifepristone.

 

Read More: WBAL News-Radio
Common Market Co-op’s first “Plant-A-Palooza’ builds partnerships in sustainability
April 17, 2023 -

Outside of Common Market Co-op’s Buckeystown Pike location on Saturday, local businesses captured the attention of shoppers and passersby with sweets, seedlings, flowers and sustainability techniques. At one table was a representative from South Mountain Creamery, dishing out scoops of fresh ice cream, and at another was the director of a Frederick County-based environmental education center, speaking with interested parents about the school’s programs.

 

Read More: Frederick News-Post
Carroll commissioners approve county funding match for summer food program benefiting low-income children
April 17, 2023 -

Low-income families living in the rural areas of Carroll County will receive more funds from the county and state to help purchase food for their school-age children this summer. The Board of Carroll County Commissioners unanimously agreed to submit a state grant application for $65,376 and to provide a required county match of $45,431 for the fiscal 2024 Summer Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Read More: Carroll County Times
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‘We’re watching’: Md. Attorney General warns landlords against using discriminatory practices
April 17, 2023 -

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown wants to protect renters from discriminatory landlords in the Old Line State, but so far, the law has tied his hands. “Up until now, the Office of the Attorney General in Maryland had a very small role in enforcing federal and state civil rights laws,” Brown told WTOP after 100 days in office.

 

Read More: WTOP
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Baltimore Police ‘turning the corner’ but needs to share progress, address staffing woes, federal judge says
April 14, 2023 -

The Baltimore Police Department is “turning the corner” in reforming unconstitutional policing practices, according to the federal judge overseeing the city’s consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice. But it’s not sufficiently sharing that progress with the communities it serves — a vital piece of rebuilding trust and repairing damaged relationships, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar said at Thursday’s quarterly public hearing.

 

Read More: Baltimore Sun

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