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Nicole Fuller, “Six Chesapeake Science students head to state math competition: Annapolis MathCounts chapter has kids from Arundel, Eastern Shore,” Baltimore Sun, March 1, 2009
Six students at Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School will participate in a statewide math competition later this month after scoring big wins in the county…. [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Tough decisions due on Arundel schools’ budget: Leopold warns budget requests will be ‘nearly impossible’ to fund,” Baltimore Sun, February 22, 2009
22. February 2009
Anne Arundel County schools Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell and County Executive John R. Leopold said they will be working closely in the coming months to bridge their budgetary priorities, after the school board last week approved Maxwell’s recommended $977.4 million operating budget and $213.8 million capital budget. The budgets will be forwarded to Leopold, who [...]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Odenten Elementary principal moving to charter school,” Baltimore Sun, February 15, 2009
15. February 2009
The county’s new charter school has hired the principal of Odenton Elementary School to serve as its first principal when it opens later this year. Monarch Academy Public Charter School has hired Maurine E. Larkin to be principal of the school that is scheduled to open on Aug. 24. The school will initially house 195 [...]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Anne Arundel schools to end gymnastics as varsity sport,” Baltimore Sun, February 15, 2009
15. February 2009
Anne Arundel County public schools have announced the discontinuation of gymnastics as a high school varsity sport because of sagging participation and a lack of coaches…. [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Warmer Budget Talks: Maxwell, Leopold find common ground on school financing in difficult times,” Baltimore Sun, December 21, 2008
21. December 2008
What a difference a year makes. Schools Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell, who proposed a $977 million operating budget for the school system last week, said he and County Executive John R. Leopold have been meeting monthly since August…. [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Proposed Arundel schools budget at $977 million,” Baltimore Sun, December 18, 2008
18. December 2008
Anne Arundel County School Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell proposed a $977.4 million operating budget last night for the next fiscal year, a nearly 5 percent increase over last year’s proposal…. [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “School Redistrict Plans: Maxwell presents board with proposals for South County, Mountain Road areas,” Baltimore Sun, December 7, 2008
7. December 2008
Anne Arundel County School Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell has presented the school board with plans to redistrict schools in the South County and Mountain Road areas of the county, attempting to disrupt as few community schools as possible and remedy many of the area’s overcrowding issues using magnet schools… [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Board OKs plan for new charter school: Baltimore-based nonprofit to run Monarch Academy for elementary-age students in county,” Baltimore Sun, November 23, 2008
23. November 2008
A new charter school is set to open in Anne Arundel County next fall, after the county school board approved a preliminary plan for a 600-student combined elementary and middle school… [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “A test of safety, fairness: Schools have raised bar for mandatory expulsion but say punishment still applies,” Baltimore Sun, November 16, 2008
16. November 2008
The threatening text messages started in the summer, before school even began. By the time classes started at Annapolis High School this year, Lashon Patterson’s daughter was so traumatized that each morning she begged, almost always in tears, to ditch school…. [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Schools’ Punitive Actions Decline: Goal is to keep students in the classroom, decrease inequities,” Baltimore Sun, October 26, 2008
26. October 2008
Anne Arundel County’s public middle and high schools have distributed fewer disciplinary referrals, suspensions and expulsions each year during the past two school years in an effort to increase student achievement and meet federal school safety standards, according to a newly released report… [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “School board chief thrives on diversity,” Baltimore Sun, October 19, 2008
19. October 2008
Enrique M. Melendez idolized his uncle, a neighborhood handyman, when he was growing up and attending public schools in some of New York City’s toughest neighborhoods. “He told me, ‘You don’t want to be like me, I didn’t graduate from high school,’” recalled Melendez, now president of the Anne Arundel County school board, in a [...]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Schools curtail hiring, projects,” Baltimore Sun, October 19, 2008
19. October 2008
Anne Arundel County school officials are downsizing school renovation projects and curtailing hiring amid a worsening economy that has produced bleak forecasts for the state and county budgets…. [Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Anne Arundel schools’ AP, SAT results are mixed” Baltimore Sun, October 5, 2008
5. October 2008
The participation rate among Anne Arundel County public school students on the PSAT and scores on the SAT and AP exams declined slightly in the 2007-2008 school year…[Link to Article]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “Making Space: Crowded schools are adding on, with the goal of getting kids out of portables,” Baltimore Sun, September 25, 2008
25. September 2008
Though Anne Arundel County school officials have met the mandate to provide all-day kindergarten, they struggled to find additional space for their youngest students. Along the way, the number of portable classrooms more than doubled. Now Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell and the school board are working to reverse that trend – and are seeking to [...]
Continue reading...Nicole Fuller, “School learns its lesson”, Baltimore Sun, September 18, 2008
18. September 2008
After a troubled startup and friction with the county system, Chesapeake Science Point charter school looks to a bright future Since opening inside a Hanover office park three years ago, the county’s only public charter school has delivered strikingly high standardized test scores and, this year, produced a semifinalist – the only one in Anne [...]
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