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14-year-old Baltimore boy makes history as the youngest freshman at his university
West Muhammad has made big strides in his educational journey. The 14-year-old has already been accepted to Coppin State University and is doing well as a freshman. His mother began teaching him to read at the age of three, and when he was four, he began first grade. Even though his mother homeschooled him for...
DMV high school football scores & highlights (10/18/24)
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Highlights from ten games from all over D.C., Maryland and northern Virginia as we are midway through the month of October. No. 6 Good Counsel vs. No. 2 DeMatha (Landover, Md.) – Game of the Week In our Game of the Week, DeMatha asserted its dominance over Good Counsel, winning […]
No. 4 Dunbar football beats No. 13 Mervo, 42-27, behind Savion Witherspoon, Cole Floyd
While Mervo has recently joined Dunbar as a perennial state power in football, the No. 4 Poets have made it clear who rules the neighborhood. More proof came Saturday afternoon at Morgan State when Dunbar started fast and never let up to come away with a 42-27 win over the Mustangs in a Baltimore City showdown between defending state champions. Running back Cole Floyd ran for three first-half ...
Anne Arundel County teachers get pay raise, career advancement opportunities with new deal
BALTIMORE -- Anne Arundel County teachers will get a pay raise and more opportunities to advance in their careers after the Board of Education approved an agreement with the district's teacher's union.The deal, unanimously approved by the board, provides compensation increases, establishes a career ladder and creates a salary scale for middle school athletics coaches. Â "We want to strengthen our profession and competitive salaries is the first start," said union president Kristina Korona, who has been a teacher in Anne Arundel County Public Schools for 23 years. "We've just lagged for many years behind surrounding counties in our pay."This recently...
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...
Black male teachers are a rarity in preschools. This pioneering program wants to change that
BALTIMORE (AP) — Before 19-year-old Davontez Johnson found himself in a preschool classroom at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary, he was a senior at a nearby high school who, like many students his age, was unsure of what he wanted to do with his life. Not in his wildest dreams could he have imagined himself standing on a colorful carpet, leading a gaggle of 4-year-olds in a chant and dance about phonics.
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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