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DJS Secretary says "I'm sticking around" after calls for resignation
BALTIMORE -- The secretary of Maryland's Department of Juvenile Services says he's "got no plans on going anywhere" after calls for him to resign following the arrest of a teenager with an ankle monitor at a Howard County school.The 17-year-old was arrested on Oct. 15 at Howard High School and is facing charges in the murder of 26-year-old Kendrick McLellan, who was found shot to death on Oct. 12 in the parking lot of an office building in Columbia. A 14-year-old was also arrested at a school in Anne Arundel County.There are online petitions and demands by some lawmakers that...
October 2024 TMP: Raise my Taxes Edition
In what has become a sad sort of annual tradition here in Howard County, parents of students attending overcrowded and under-maintained schools testified in front of the Howard County Board of Education last month on why the limited capital funds available for school construction be prioritized to maintain, modernize, improve, and/or expand their own child's school building (inevitably at the expense of another needed school investment). It’s cut-throat competitive over limited capital funding that should not be.
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