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Cool Heads Prevail In 'One Minute To Midnight'
In his thrilling postmortem of the Cuban missile crisis, Michael Dobbs reveals the role of tactical diplomacy — and luck — in ensuring a peaceful resolution to the Cold War standoff.
D.C. School District Proposes Merit Pay For Teachers
School districts across the nation are experimenting with paying teachers based on performance. An important and troubled district in Washington, D.C., is now moving closer to merit pay. Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia's public schools, talks about her proposal.
Students See World During 'Gap Year'
As many high school graduates prepare for college this summer, others are getting their passports and heading off on a kind of sabbatical. A growing number of students are taking a short break from the academic grind in order to travel and work.
In Iraq, Pilot Program Aims To Teach Basic Literacy
The U.S. military-funded program is designed to teach reading, writing and math to young men in the Awakening movement, some of them former insurgents who now help American forces to secure their neighborhoods.
Students Recall College Life as Undocumented Immigrants
College life, for any undergraduate student, is often met with challenges that can sometimes seem larger than life. Those same challenges can be even more burdensome for undocumented immigrants on campuses across the U.S. Kent Wong, editor of Underground Undergrad, and Mariana Zamboni, once an undocumented student, discuss the challenges.
Gone Are The Yearbooks Of Yesteryear
Facebook, MySpace and other online sites are threatening the very existence of college yearbooks. Emily Heiser, editor-in-chief of Purdue University's yearbook, talks about the decision to end publication of her school's yearbook after more than a century.
Economy Takes Toll On Education Funding
Education budgets are getting hit by higher costs for fuel and food and by lower tax revenues due to the real estate downturn. But some states are trying to protect schools from lousy economic conditions.
Credit Crisis Shakes Confidence In Student Loans
The federal student loan program has helped tens of millions of students pay for college. But with the economy in a downward spiral, lenders have been pulling out. Funding for new loans has dried up. For the first time, public confidence in the program seems shaky.
Chinese School Offers 'Loving' Home for Kids
Guan Ai — "loving care" in Chinese — is a boarding school in a poor, tiny village. Though it lacks frills, staff at Guan Ai has made an effort to foster warmth and creativity, and it is a refuge from the competitive environment at traditional schools.
Financial Aid Woes Boost Community College Appeal
Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are struggling to find money for college. We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.
Graduate School Admissions Test Controversy Grows
Six thousand business school students might have their GMAT scores canceled because they subscribed to a test prep site that posted questions currently in use on the test.
High Point University Boosts Its 'Wow' Factor
The president of High Point University in North Carolina hired a director of "wow" to help make students happy. The campus now features ice cream trucks, valet parking, a concierge desk, a hot tub and free snacks. Classical music wafts through the grounds.
Chef Proves School Lunch Can Be Healthy, Cheap
Chef Dominique Valadier once worked in the glamorous world of French Riviera restaurants. Now he is making his gourmet meals, with all local ingredients, for public school children.
Harlem School Aces Math Test
Every single eighth grader at Harlem Village Academy passed this year's state math test. Can other schools learn from the academy's success?
'School Phobia' Plunges Family Into Misery
Teenager Rebecca Maykish suffers from such severe anxiety in classrooms that she stopped attending school regularly at age 8. She and her family are locked in a battle with their Pennsylvania school district over how to pay for her education.
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New AFT Leader Vows to Take Down NCLB
Randi Weingarten tells union delegates she wants new federal legislation based on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Camp Aims to Attract Hispanic Students to STEM Fields
An intensive summer camp exposes sought-after Hispanic students to college and career possibilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
State Budget Woes Squeeze Education Initiatives
Legislators gathered in New Orleans heard gloomy fiscal news, even as presidential campaign advisers floated education reform ideas.
Hawaii’s Drug Testing for Teachers in Limbo
A stalemate over who will pay for the random drug tests has prevented the program from getting started.
Districts Compare Notes on Data
The most successful systems were found to be those that focused on how to use the information to improve instruction.
Summer Classes a Draw for English-Learners
School districts offer programs to help students sharpen their English-proficiency skills while waiting for the next school year to start.
Math Experts Question Wisdom of Calif. Algebra Rule
Many educators and administrators, as well as some members of a national advisory group, wonder how the state will succeed in mandating that 8th graders be tested in Algebra 1, given students’ persistent struggles in that subject and the potential demand it will generate for more math teachers.
Urban Leaders Back Stronger NCLB Accountability
Some mayors and urban school chiefs are urging Congress to be more aggressive in holding their schools accountable in the next version of the federal school law.
Stanford Opens Access to All Its Education Studies
The move to provide free online access to faculty research is believed to be a first among U.S. schools of education.
In Their Shoes
Rock climbing helped new teacher Jennifer McDaniel understand the depth of frustration and embarrassment her students feel when they fail.
Reason Vs. Rebellion
Frances G. Wills, superintendent for the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District, discusses how one student's act of rebellion can undermine the reasoning of a good education.
NEEDED: Federal Action For Fair Funding of High-Poverty Schools
Federal education-funding requirements exacerbate existing inequality in education, say John Podesta and Cynthia G. Brown.
Raising Graduation Rates In an Era of High Standards
Cheryl Almeida and Adria Steinberg argue that the time has come for policies to reduce dropout rates to be made as high a priority as policies designed to raise overall academic performance to a college-ready standard.
Audits Go On as Ed. Dept.'s 'Aggressive' IG Retires
John P. Higgins Jr. retired as the Department of Education’s inspector general after 40 years as a watchdog, but the office he led for the past six years continues turning out reports without him.
Candidates’ K-12 Views Take Shape
As their education plans begin to crystallize, sharper differences are emerging between John McCain and Barack Obama.
Sweden Lets School Choice Take Root
Sweeping school reform introduced 16 years ago defied critics and is attracting attention in Sweden and abroad.
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States Slash K-12 Funding to Fill Budget Gaps
A fiscal climate even worse than projected already has forced 11 states to cut education spending, and more could follow suit, state lawmakers learn in a new report.
U.S. Federal Appeals Court Affirms That Child Online Protection Act Violates First Amendment
Court Affirms Online Content Law Unconstitutional
Md. Law Allows Disabled to Compete Alongside Peers
The first law of its kind, Maryland requires equal access to mainstream athletics programs for students with disabilities.
Miss. School District Bars Teacher-Student Texting
A new school district policy in southern Mississippi prohibits teachers from texting or communicating with students through Internet social network sites such as MySpace.
Libraries Booking Young Video Gamers
Report: After-School Programs Squander State Cash
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At Thomas Jefferson, 2.8 Is Tantamount to Failure
Matthew Nuti finished 10th grade at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology with much to be proud of. He excelled in oratory on the Model United Nations team. He was a starting lineman in junior varsity football. His English teacher complimented his classroom wit. Like virtually all...
Funds Found for New Charters
The District will use a $7.5 million education reserve fund to pay for the seven former Catholic schools slated to reopen as secular charter schools next month, and it will be able to find more money if necessary, officials said this week.
Randy Pausch, 47; Professor Gave Inspiring 'Last Lecture'
Randy Pausch, a prominent computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who became an instant sensation far beyond the classroom last year when he delivered his inspiring "Last Lecture," knowing he had only months to live, died July 25 at his home in Chesapeake, Va. He was 47.
Saving Young Men With Career Academies
By usual measures of student progress, America's high school career academies have been a failure. One of the longest and most scientific education studies ever conducted concluded they did not improve test scores or graduation rates or college success for urban youth. People like me, obsessed with...
Trust and Teamwork Conquer The Toughest of Challenges
Dillon Osei placed one foot into a hanging tire and shoved off with the other.
Head of Office Was Fired Before Payroll Problems
The District fired the head of the Office of Youth Programs because of problems with the city's summer jobs effort, days before human error and computer glitches led to thousands of students coming up short on payday.
The Odd World of E-School Teachers
For Trinity Wilbourn, teaching high school via the Internet offers a heartening and maddening prism into the teenage mind-set.
Cost to County Will Be Key To Hornsby's Punishment
For Andre J. Hornsby, the legal battles are far from over.
Barry Promoting 2 Charter Schools
Marion Barry has always taken an interest in education. He's been a guest science teacher at Ballou Senior High, and some of his D.C. Council colleagues are graduates of the Mayor's Youth Leadership Institute, which he founded.
Cafeteria Menus Get Failing Grades
A District-based nonprofit organization, affiliated with a group that promotes a vegan diet, issued a report card today on school lunches that gives two local school systems failing grades for the amount of processed meat they serve to students.
Pay-Hike Plan for Teachers In D.C. Entails Probation
D.C. teachers interested in the huge salary increases proposed by Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee would not only have to relinquish their seniority but also risk dismissal by spending a year on probation, according to details of the plan released yesterday.
State Executes Man Who Killed Co-Worker
Christopher S. Emmett was executed by lethal injection last night in Virginia's death chamber, seven years after he fatally bludgeoned a co-worker with a brass lamp.
Hundreds of Students Say They Weren't Paid
Samantha Baskin gets paid to be patient. One of thousands of students across the District who had pay problems in the summer youth jobs program last week, Samantha, 14, said that she doesn't actually do anything at the Washington East of the River Academy.
Arts Plan Could Cause Funding Gap, Study Says
In the midst of a contentious and politically turbulent first year as D.C. schools chancellor, Michelle A. Rhee drew near-universal acclaim with one goal: to place music, art and physical education instructors in all public schools.
Hornsby Convicted On 6 Counts
Andre J. Hornsby, the former Prince George's County public schools chief whose first corruption trial ended in a hung jury last year, was convicted yesterday on six of the 22 federal charges brought against him in his retrial.
Hornsby Retrial Jury Reports Deadlocks, Some Verdicts
The jury in the retrial of former Prince George's schools chief Andre J. Hornsby will continue deliberating today after announcing yesterday that it has reached verdicts on some of the 22 charges but is deadlocked on others.
Shake-Up Follows Probe of Police Chief's Degree Credentials
Some senior officials are leaving their posts at Virginia Commonwealth University following an investigation that found a police chief was improperly allowed to graduate after taking just two classes there.
County MSA Exam Scores Rise, Remain Ahead of Pack
Howard County students continue to outperform their peers on statewide exams, making gains in reading and mathematics, according to data released by the Maryland State Department of Education this month.
Reaching Beyond the Classroom
Deirdre Smith pressed the play button on the CD player, walked to the back of the high school auditorium and eyed her 12 students as they stood like statues in choreographic formation. The 25-year-old model folded her arms and awaited the cue in the song that was playing: "Five! Six! Five! Six!...
For More N.Va. Students, the Classroom Is on the Computer
Online schooling in Northern Virginia and elsewhere is becoming more popular among students and educators as a way to break from the traditional classroom setting and rigid school schedules, according to interviews with local officials and a new federal study.
County's Test Scores Rise in Every Grade
Anne Arundel County students improved their scores at every grade level on this spring's Maryland School Assessment exams, according to data released this month by the Maryland State Department of Education.
Matches Can Ease Climb to Fundraising Summit
Yesterday's Send a Kid to Camp column was about The Hike: the arduous uphill climb that is a rite of passage for the youngsters at Camp Moss Hollow.
Doubts Linger on Pre-K-8 Strategy
Like surgical scars, once promising or trendy ideas for reform have left their marks all over the D.C. school system. Many came as officials pursued the best way to configure schools for students coping with their turbulent adolescent years.
Barry Seeks Audit After Payroll Glitch
D.C. Council member Marion Barry is calling for an audit of the District government's payroll foul-up that left hundreds of students unpaid last week in the summer youth job program.
Young Drivers Getting A Lesson in Economics
Gas prices are too high for a day trip to Dewey Beach. They are too high for a quick visit to see a friend in College Park. They consume enough of 18-year-old Ashleigh Krudys's paycheck that she second-guesses her social plans.
By Taxi, Expanding National Harbor's Reach
If you're looking for the wonder in taking a water taxi across the Potomac, perhaps it is best to look at the journey through the eyes of a 4-year-old.
Circuit Court Judge Retiring in Charles
Charles County Circuit Court Judge Christopher C. Henderson, who has served for 12 years, will step down this fall.
2 Boards in Accord on Budget Shortfall
Fairfax County supervisors and School Board members agreed unanimously yesterday to share proportionally the responsibility for eliminating a $430 million combined shortfall for the school system and the county government in the coming fiscal year.
Summer Jobs Program Comes Up Short on Pay
Hundreds of participants in the summer youth jobs program woke up yesterday to find that they had either been underpaid or not paid at all.
Woman Charged in PTA Theft Sentenced to One Year
A woman who stole more than $180,000 from a Fairfax County elementary school's parent-teacher association was sentenced to a year in jail yesterday, though she will ultimately spend the time on home detention because of her poor health.
Union Chief Sets Meetings, Says Talks at 'Very Critical Stage'
Washington Teachers' Union President George Parker has scheduled a series of meetings with teachers to discuss contract negotiations with the D.C. school system, which he describes as "at a very critical stage."
Skepticism Greets Big Gains
State reading and math tests taken by Maryland students were shortened and tweaked this year, leading some critics to question whether the shifts contributed to surprisingly strong gains in achievement.
Boards to Seek Cuts In Schools Budget
Faced with declining local tax revenue, the Fairfax County School Board is preparing for a possible education spending freeze or a cut next year.
In Closed Schools, History Lessons
For Nancye Suggs, the call from D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's office about nearly two dozen schools she planned to close was bittersweet: Suggs said that she was heartbroken about the loss, in one fell swoop, of so much history but that she was ecstatic Rhee was offering her a chance...
Sorority Leads March for Change
Wearing a pink and green T-shirt, Anne Sims rode down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol in her motorized scooter as her Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters marched with her.
Texas OKs standards for elective Bible classes
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas State Board of Education gave final approval Friday to establishing Bible classes in public high schools, rejecting calls to draw specific teaching guidelines and warnings that it could lead to constitutional problems in the classroom.
U-Md. Accidentally Exposes Student Social Security Numbers
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- The University of Maryland says it accidentally printed social security numbers on the outside of a mailing sent to all students.
Top Va. Education Official to Resign
Governor Timothy M. Kaine (D) announced today that Virginia's top education official is resigning after two years on the job.
A School Where One Size Doesn't Fit All
Growing up in Montgomery County, graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and getting a law degree from Harvard, Alan M. Shusterman had been called brilliant but didn't feel that great. He got a job in corporate law with a large Boston firm, but that didn't work for him, eit...
Coping With Their Parents' War
For Cody Caudill, it "wasn't that big of a deal" when his dad went to Bosnia in 2001 with the Maryland National Guard. In 2003, Robert Caudill served close to home at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Two years later, he went to war.
Sun Starting to Set on Dreams Of a Better Summer
When our Send a Kid to Camp campaign kicked off in early June, we set an ambitious goal of raising $475,000 by July 25 -- enough to cover at least a week at Camp Moss Hollow in the Blue Ridge foothills for hundreds of children who otherwise wouldn't have much of a summer.
Disease Prevention Called a Better Bet
An ounce of prevention in community health programs could save states hundreds of millions in health-care costs, a new study has found.
Student Reaches for the Sun and Succeeds
Even with an overcast sky, the solar panels on the roof of George Mason High School in Falls Church were absorbing enough sun on a recent morning to power the air conditioner in a classroom.
County's Achievement Gap Narrows in Reading and Math
The achievement gap separating black and Hispanic students from whites and Asians in performance on statewide tests has narrowed in reading and math at every grade level tested, according to an analysis of results released this week by Montgomery County school officials.
Charles Workers Meet With Organizers
Organizers from a prominent labor union met with a group of Charles County employees this week as part of a fledgling effort to unionize county government workers.
Case Goes to Jury in Ex-Schools Chief's Retrial
The witness list was virtually unchanged. The judge and lawyers were the same. So, too, was much of the evidence, as former Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby, whose last trial ended in a hung jury, was tried again on public corruption charges.
D.C. Gun Ban Is Out, But Regulations Stay
The D.C. Council unanimously approved emergency legislation last night that ends the strictest handgun ban in the country and voted 12 to 1 to approve the transfer of almost $125 million to renovate schools by fall -- two major issues that showed the council's complex relationship with Mayor Adrian...
Teachers Become Nurses as Schools Get Squeezed
-- During the past two school years, teacher Julia Keyse had to enforce an unusual rule in her kindergarten and first-grade classroom: No interrupting while she pricked Caylee's finger to check her blood sugar and adjusted her insulin pump.
Md. Scores In Reading, Math Show Big Strides
Maryland's march toward the goal of having all students reach grade level in reading and math gained momentum today with the release of test scores that show surprisingly strong gains in those subjects, especially among disadvantaged students.
Review Finds Slurs In '06 Saudi Texts
A Saudi-funded academy in Fairfax County used textbooks as recently as 2006 that compared Jews and Christians to apes and pigs, told eighth-graders that these groups are "the enemies of the believers" and diagrammed for high school students where to cut off the hands and feet of thieves, a Washin...
Jobless Rate for Youths Is Increasing
CHICAGO -- Since Eddie Macias graduated from high school in Chicago on June 17, his summer has stretched in front of him.
They're So Vein: Tapping A Job Market
There's the 60-year-old math teacher from India and the 34-year-old medical assistant from Eritrea. A 52-year-old Dodge car salesman who left New Orleans after Katrina, and a 32-year-old bank teller who cared for two parents until both died. A 26-year-old college grad. All trying their best to pu...
Owning His Gay Identity -- at 15 Years Old
School's out, and Saro Harvey and his best friend, Samantha Sachs, are hanging out in his Arlington County bedroom. She is slouched across his bed, and he is poised on a chair, posture-perfect, wearing dark, skinny jeans and a ruffled shirt meant for a girl. A rust-orange purse he sometimes carries...
A Century of Sisterhood
By 7:30 in the morning, nearly 1,000 ladies began their fitness walk around the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Many wore pink sweat pants with a double row of green piping. Some wore dark green Converse tennis shoes with a salmon pink toe. Others went hard, head-to-toe pink with just a h...
Ads Hope to Inject U.S. School Challenges Into White House Race
Amid a presidential campaign dominated by debate about the economy and the war in Iraq, an advertising campaign scheduled to debut in Northern Virginia and elsewhere tomorrow is seeking to spotlight challenges facing U.S. schools.
Summer Is Hot Time For School Construction
Teachers and students typically get summer vacation, but it's the busy season for people charged with building and maintaining schools.
In Search of Young Mouths To Feed In Summer
Montgomery County officials dispatch a school bus daily to roam a Silver Spring neighborhood with an unlikely task: find children interested in going to school, in midsummer, for the food.
Group Protests School Transfer Policy
A new parent group in Calvert County is protesting a policy that allows children to attend elementary schools close to their day-care centers, an arrangement that the group says unfairly lets some families place their children in the county's best schools.
Some D.C. Principals Credit Rhee for Big Gains in Test Scores
Principals at some D.C. schools that demonstrated a dramatic increase on this year's student achievement test credit the gains to programs they implemented after a push from Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.
Music Festival Battled Elements, Empty Seats
A first-year music festival that one reviewer called "staggeringly ambitious" drew only tiny crowds to Charles County during its 17-day run last month, but organizers hailed it as the start of something bigger.
Young Girl Follows Moss Hollow's Slogan, Finding Friends and a Creative Outlet
D onald Brown knows how big an uncle's responsibilities can really be. When his sister, a troubled drug addict, abandoned his infant nieces, he stepped in.
Broader Youth Involvement Urged
Erica Williams worries about the wave of political involvement among young people this election season.
Development Firm Is Picked For Library-School Project
The city has picked a developer for a site that includes Janney Elementary School and the former Tenley-Friendship Library, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced yesterday.
D.C. Students See Big Academic Gains
D.C. public school students made significant achievement gains during the past academic year, according to preliminary test data released yesterday.
D.C. Libraries Mired in Political Dithering
What's happened in the four years since the District shuttered four of its neighborhood libraries, lost another one to a fire and launched an endless debate over whether to renovate or get rid of its main branch downtown?
Law Students Rush to Meet Needs In Booming Field of Immigration
Ann Kim made monthly trips this year to a Richmond area immigrant detention center, trying to free a mentally ill Honduran man. He ended up being deported, but Kim got something out of it: more experience in the burgeoning field of immigration law.
Minority Groups Decry Ouster of School Advocate
Loudoun County's minority community is criticizing school officials for failing to renew the contract of the district's first supervisor for outreach.
A Hot Time For School Construction Projects
Teachers and students get summer vacation, but it's the busy season for the people charged with building and maintaining schools.
CSM Raises Tuition, Cites Increase in Expenses
Tuition at the College of Southern Maryland will rise 4 percent for Maryland residents this fall, while out-of-state students will pay nearly 6 percent more.
At Magnet School, An Asian Plurality
Asian American students will outnumber white classmates for the first time in the freshman class at the region's most prestigious public magnet school this fall, a milestone reached as the number of African Americans and Hispanics has remained low and the Fairfax County School Board prepares to r...
Audit Finds Abuse of Education Dept. Credit Cards
U.S. Department of Education employees inappropriately used government credit cards to purchase $49,500 worth of goods and services, including meals, items at clothing stores and rental cars, for personal use, according to a review by the department's inspector general.
Reaping the Rewards Of Solid SAT Study
Amy Weiler, an assistant principal at C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, has noticed a reassuring statistic when she evaluates the impact of SAT classes and workshops at her school.
Acts of Reconciliation
In a way, it's a story of those two diamond engagement rings.
What Comes Next After Generation X?
Everyone knows the G.I. generation of World War II and the baby boomers who followed. And everyone knows the late-20th-century demographic labeled with the non-label generation X.
Rhee Deploys 'Army of Believers'
Rikki Hunt Taylor is filled with fire and educational jargon. When the Takoma Educational Center's new principal describes her vision for the school, she promises "a data-driven culture" and teachers committed to "differentiated instruction."
Board Members Resign to Protest Chair's Ousting
The issue that has roiled U.S.-Turkish relations in recent months -- how to characterize the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 -- has set off a dispute over politics and academic freedom at an institute housed at Georgetown University.
Capital Celebration of Freedom
Three times in the past four years, the forces of nature have added their own special effects -- rain, wind and sometimes lightning -- to the traditional Fourth of July celebration on the Mall. Last night it happened again, with repeated drenchings that forced people to seek shelter under trees, ...
Rhee to Fire 250 Teachers Who Missed Certification Date
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced yesterday that she plans to fire 250 teachers and 500 teacher's aides who were unable to meet a June 30 deadline to obtain certification.
Kids Come Through So Their Peers Can Sing and Swim at Moss Hollow
Kids don't have to go to Camp Moss Hollow to understand its importance in the lives of those who do. After all, kids know kids. They know how much fun it is to be carefree, to skip from place to place, to spend an afternoon at the pool or sing at the top of their lungs.
Italian American Groups Speak Up to Save AP Language Test
For those who teach Italian in U.S. schools, the advent of an Advanced Placement course in Italian language and culture three years ago was an epochal event, securing a future for the subject alongside Spanish and French and staving off competition from fast-growing programs in Japanese and Chinese.
Rhee Seeks Tenure-Pay Swap for Teachers
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is proposing a contract that would give mid-level teachers who are paid $62,000 yearly the opportunity to earn more than $100,000 -- but they would have to give up seniority and tenure rights, two union members familiar with the negotiations said yesterday.
Teachers Union To Back Candidate
A torrent of teachers is flowing into Washington this week as one of the nation's largest and most powerful unions aims to decide whom to endorse in the presidential race, what position to take on revisions to the federal No Child Left Behind law and how to react to state and local proposals for ...
Veteran Fire Official Appointed Chief; He Will Deal With Tightening Budget
Anne Arundel's county executive announced the retirement of the county's fire chief yesterday and introduced his replacement, Deputy Chief John Robert Ray, a department veteran of 31 years.
Bush Opens New Chapter for Hospital
President Bush broke ground on a $1 billion expansion of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda yesterday, a project that will elevate the campus into what federal officials say will be the nation's premier military medical site and a destination for wounded service members returning from...
Conversion Plan Would Meet Demand for Specialty Schools
The Prince George's County Board of Education endorsed a plan last week to convert five underenrolled schools into specialized academies to create more space for its popular language immersion and Montessori programs.
Star-Spangled Trail Gets Federal Grant
Many historians say the War of 1812 is the "forgotten war," even in Maryland, where the majority of the British-American conflict was fought and the "Star-Spangled Banner" was written. Now, nearly 200 years later, federal and state officials want to change that.
Med School Is Asked to Stop Animal Use
The U.S. military's medical school in Bethesda is drawing criticism from a coalition of physicians and military officers for using live animals in some medical procedures, such as surgeries, a practice many medical schools have long abandoned.
State Gets Leeway to Design Own Plan for Fixing Schools
For many Maryland schools that miss academic targets year after year under the No Child Left Behind law, the stigma associated with needing help will ease under a precedent-setting program the federal government announced yesterday.
School Officials Urge Approval Of Funds for Building Repairs
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