A Banner reader says Maryland lawmakers can and must act to ensure accountability in child sexual abuse cases; another reader says conservative activists elected to Maryland school boards are interested in spreading their political agenda, and not in what’s best for schoolchildren.
Richard Vatz, a professor at TU for 41 years, says he tends to want to help conservative groups because there’s ‘so much anti-conservatism in higher education.’ But he said he told Turning Point members that their remarks were inappropriate and that he would quit as their advisor if they continued.
The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners voted to close Steuart Hill Academic Academy in January, but parents were hoping their appeal to state officials would keep the doors open.
Baltimore County Public Schools should embrace new strategies for disciplining students because merely removing students from school does little to fix the problem of disruptive behavior, a law student and former county teacher says.
School board candidates Maggie Litz Domanowski and Brenda Hatcher-Savoy cemented their wins after the Baltimore County Board of Elections finished counting mail-in and provisional ballots late Friday.
Attorney General Brian Frosh is seeking court approval to release the 456-page report, which documents 80 years of child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
A coalition of Baltimore County community groups met Tuesday in Randallstown to brainstorm ways to help Black students succeed and hold school leaders accountable if they fail.