Andrea Rodriguez Avila transferred to Rice, in Houston, Texas, last spring from the Community College of Baltimore County. She was from Nottingham, Maryland, and graduated from Perry Hall High School in 2021.
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 don’t stop while children are being dropped off or picked up.
Parents may barely have heard of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, but the expansive changes to public education are already shaping their children’s 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.
“One thing about Leslie, he was not a downer. He was one that was really excited,” Elder Gregory Johnson said. “And so, while we are here in his remembrance, we know he has left such a great legacy in his life of just 16 years.”
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.