Students in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore counties made steady progress on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, known as MCAP.
All county school buses will be outfitted with high-definition cameras to catch drivers who donβt stop while children are being dropped off or picked up.
Parents may barely have heard of the Blueprint for Marylandβs Future, but the expansive changes to public education are already shaping their childrenβs lives in school.
A man, 23, testified for more than two hours in U.S. District Court in Baltimore about how his former teacher at the Gilman School, Chris Bendann, sexually abused and extorted him.
The latest version of Maryland State Department of Educationβs literacy policy gives parents a right to challenge a decision to hold their child back.
βOne thing about Leslie, he was not a downer. He was one that was really excited,β Elder Gregory Johnson said. βAnd so, while we are here in his remembrance, we know he has left such a great legacy in his life of just 16 years.β
Howard County Public School System officials say they've been hard at work understanding what happened last August and how to stop it from happening again.
The death came as students were on campus for practices and tryouts for nine sports at the school. Afternoon practices were canceled Wednesday, according to a Franklin High School Athletic Boosters page on social media. Tryouts and practices resumed Thursday.
The number of teacher vacancies is the lowest itβs been in several years, but itβs not clear if thatβs because there are fewer jobs to go around.