A 12-year-old Montgomery County student was being sent to the hallway for being disruptive in class. On her way out the door, she brushed up against her teacher. The student was suspended for 10 days for attacking an employee.
A group of Potomac residents fighting the construction of private soccer fields on Montgomery County Schools-owned land filed an appeal with the Montgomery County Circuit Court on Tuesday, challenging the Maryland State Board of Education's decision that the local board could lease the land.
Last month, the Maryland State Board of Education adopted a policy requiring students to exhibit "environmental lit- eracy" to graduate from high school. In other words, students will be required to take courses on such topics as "smart growth," conservation and, undoubtedly, the adverse effects of climate change. In his statement announcing the change, Gov. Martin O'Malley applauded the new requirement and remarked how important it is for our graduates to have "a keen understanding of and connection to the natural world."
A former Queen Anne's County Public Schools superintendent was named interim superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education on Thursday.
Montgomery County public school employees censored and discriminated against a group opposed to the county's new sex-education curriculum, an Alliance Defense Fund attorney said yesterday in a letter to the county school board president.
Montgomery County public school employees censored and discriminated against a group opposed to the county's new sex-education curriculum, an Alliance Defense Fund attorney said yesterday in a letter to the county school board president.
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Prince George's County school board member Nathaniel B. Thomas resigned yesterday, one day after a county grand jury indicted him on a felony sex-offense charge for having sex with a 15-year-old male student.
