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Baltimore City under pressure to hire hundreds of teachers before school starts
July 28, 2022 -

Baltimore City Public Schools needs to hire hundreds of teachers to fill a shortage with about a month left before school starts. The district needs to hire almost 200 teachers a week in order to fill all of its vacant positions in what’s being called one of the hardest hiring years the school system has seen in some time.

Read More: WBAL
Carroll County Public Schools hires nearly 100 new teachers, but still more positions are left to be filled
July 28, 2022 -

The Carroll County Board of Education unanimously voted to approve the hiring of nearly 100 new educators, but school leaders say there are still more positions to be filled before the first day of school Sept. 6. “We’re working very hard to fill all of our vacancies for the upcoming school year, which has been challenging in CCPS and for all other systems across the state and nationally,” Superintendent Cynthia McCabe said at the board’s July 21 meeting. “This is particularly true in critical shortage areas, but staff are working hard to fill these positions.”

Read More: Carroll County Times
Baltimore officials outline ‘holistic’ approach to luring squeegee workers from corners
July 28, 2022 -

Baltimore city officials on Wednesday shed new light on their efforts to support the as many as 160 youth who squeegee and get them away from dangerous, highly-trafficked intersections, emphasizing that they don’t plan to arrest their way out of the problem but rather take a holistic approach. The youth who squeegee are typically stationed at roughly 25 intersections, Deputy Mayor Faith Leach told City Council members, and dozens of volunteers are out on behalf of the city every day engaging with and learning more about the young people of Baltimore who take to the streets to earn money.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Maryland education board helps counties struggling to hire and retain teachers
July 28, 2022 -

Conditionally certified teachers in Maryland have received an extension from the state’s Board of Education, giving them two more years to become fully licensed teachers. Maryland districts employed more than 3,500 conditionally certified teachers during the most recent school year, double the number employed five years ago, according to a statement from Mohammed Choudhury, Maryland’s state superintendent of schools.

Read More: Maryland Matters
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As Maryland monkeypox cases rise, Baltimore health officials say vaccine doses are very limited
July 27, 2022 -

Baltimore health officials said Tuesday they’re trying to get more monkeypox vaccines for city residents as cases rise across the state, but that demand is greater than the doses the city has available. The city health department has partnered with Chase Brexton Health Care, a Baltimore-area clinic, to distribute vaccines, but Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa said all appointments have been filled. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allocated Maryland about 3,300 doses, with Baltimore initially receiving a total of 200. Chase Brexton Health Care has 75 doses, the city’s health department has 65 doses and will hold an additional 60 doses in reserve to give to people identified through contact tracing or connected to other cases.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
BWI Marshall Airport neighbors in Glen Burnie to receive $4 million in federal funds to mitigate airplane noise
July 27, 2022 -

Through the DC Metroplex BWI Community Roundtable, which acts as a liaison between communities and the FAA, residents have pushed for changes that would address noise pollution. A bill the group supported that would have created a commission to study the airport’s health impacts failed in the General Assembly this spring. BWI Roundtable member and former chair Mary Reese was pleased about the newly announced mitigation funds but said the majority of Maryland residents who have raised concerns about BWI flight noise live farther from the airport itself.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
A gang of horses: Assateague visitors experience horses gone wild
July 27, 2022 -

The Badowski family had just sat down for dinner at their Assateague Island campsite in May when they spotted wild horses galloping in the distance. Within seconds, the horses had surrounded the family vacationing from Bel Air, seizing ears of corn still steaming from the grill, ripping open a bag of chips and nosing through their hastily abandoned dinner plates. “We could barely get out of our chairs in the time it took them to get to our campsite,” said mother Caitlin Badowski, 40.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Steeped in history, Carroll County kicks off 125th 4-H & FFA Fair this weekend
July 27, 2022 -

Crafts, entertainment, ice cream, fireworks and farm animals will be on hand at the 125th Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair, which opens this weekend. The weeklong fair, which has been held since 1897, runs through Aug. 5 with activities at the Carroll County Agriculture Center, 706 Agricultural Center Drive in Westminster. Admission is free, but parking is $5 after 4 p.m. Parking will be free all day on Sunday. According to a history published in the 1997 Carroll County Fair Guide, the current version of the fair traces its roots to a picnic held Aug. 14, 1897, at the Otterdale Schoolhouse, in Taneytown. The fair moved to Westminster in 1954, to what is now known as the Carroll County Agriculture Center.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Full circle: Liberians find home in Maryland, the state where their ancestors departed from more than 150 years ago
July 27, 2022 -

With a warm, welcoming smile, Carleen Goodridge greeted her guests like they were family. As each one entered her newly opened café, The Stand by Le MONADE, nestled between the city courthouse and Mercy Hospital in downtown Baltimore, she walked over and embraced them. Her hair was fashioned into two waist-length braids that draped over the shoulders of those she hugged. I’m grateful and ecstatic,” said Goodridge, a 44-year-old Bayview resident. “Being in Baltimore has helped me complete my identity and find a better version of myself.”

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
County Council to begin months-long review of Sugarloaf preservation plan
July 26, 2022 -

The Frederick County Council is scheduled Tuesday to begin a months-long process of finalizing a plan to preserve land around Sugarloaf Mountain. The plan would rezone and shield from development nearly 20,000 acres between Monocacy National Battlefield and Frederick County’s border with Montgomery County. Plan opponents have said it will stunt development along I-270, which state and county officials identified as a strategic places to locate businesses. Some Sugarloaf-area residents have said the plan gives the county too much say in how they use their land.

Read More: Frederick News-Post

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