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Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Jul. 27 (News) - Maryland is well-known for the number of students who take AP classes, but not every Maryland high school student may have equal access to them. We'll talk to two investigative reporters, and Maryland's interim schools superintendent, about the "opportunity gap."

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Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast, Katherine Gorman - Jul. 27 (News Analysis) - Maryland is well-known for the number of students who take AP classes, but not every Maryland high school student may have equal access to them. We’ll talk to two investigative reporters, and Maryland’s interim schools superintendent, about the “opportunity gap.”

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Baltimore County Board of Education Delays Vote on Changes to Facilities Use Policy

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Catonsville Patch - By Penny Riordan - Jul. 12 (News) - After five months of debate, members of the Baltimore County Board of Education moved Tuesday to further study proposed changes to the school system's facilities use policy.

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Seven Baltimore County high schools ranked among Newsweek's "Best American High Schools"

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jay R. Thompson - Jun. 21 (News) - Among Newsweek magazine's 500 "Best American High Schools" list, which was published in the magazine's June 19 issue, Towson is home to three, while Essex, Hereford, Timonium and Pikesville can each claim one.

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Prince Edward presents city's youth a royal challenge

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Erica Green - Jun. 21 (News) - At-risk youth in Baltimore city will have an opportunity to join an international network of young people in taking on a royal challenge to improve their lives by participating in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award-Young American's Challenge.

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Shuttered Gibbons welcomes its newest alumni

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Gail Hare - Jun. 19 (News) - About half of the graduates returned to the Gibbons fold Wednesday evening for one additional rite of passage: induction into their shuttered school's alumni association.

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Cristo Rey Graduation Honors Murdered Staff Member

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WJZ-TV - By Gigi Barnett - Jun. 18 (News) - Cristo Rey Jesuit High School's class of 2011 is small but the school's first commencement ceremony at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen is large. While it's a time of celebration for the students, one person from the school's staff is missing: 24-year-old Aysha Ring.

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Rey of Hope

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Magazine - By Evan Serpick - Jun. 01 (News) - The entire graduating class at a unique school transcends poverty and heads to college. By Evan Serpick It's just before noon at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Upper Fells Point. Students in crisp white shirts and purple-and-grey-striped ties file into the spotless lunch room, which doubles as a gym and an auditorium.

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State school board believes Thornton law needs to be amended

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz Bowie - May. 25 (News) - Maryland's state school board said in an opinion issued Wednesday saying that it believes state law needs to be amended to prevent county governments from reducing their current levels of school funding.

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St. Paul's forensics class tackles cold case from Long Island

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Gail Hare - May. 23 (News) - Seniors in the forensics class at St. Paul's School scrapped the traditional blue books and delved into a real-life mystery for their final exam. Instead of an essay, they applied 21st-century tools and technology to their investigation of an unsolved 170-year-old double murder.

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Report Ranks Catonsville, Western Tech High Schools As Top In Nation

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Catonsville Patch - By Penny Riordan - May. 23 (News) - Catonsville High School and the Western School of Technology in Catonsville were ranked in the top 7 percent of the nation's high schools, according to the Washington Post.

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Maryland's First Lady Visits Carver Center, Highlights Bullying Prevention Efforts

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Daniel Gross - May. 20 (News) - To kick off Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, Judge Katie O’Malley, Maryland's first lady, came to Towson to meet with students at the Carver Center for the Arts and Technology Thursday and discuss bullying in schools.

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City seeks proposals to renovate former high school

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Edward Gunts - May. 19 (News) - The city of Baltimore is seeking a developer to buy and renovate a former high school at North Avenue and Broadway. The Baltimore Development Corp. announced Thursday that it has set Aug. 16 as the deadline for groups interested in redeveloping the Gompers Building to submit proposals.

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Don’t Argue with a Baltimorean

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - May. 18 (News) - Broadcast journalist Oprah Winfrey, South African President Nelson Mandela, and speech writer Ted Sorenson. All went on to different accomplishments, but have this in common: when they were students, each of them practiced debate.

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Schools' zero-tolerance policies criticized

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz Bowie - May. 18 (News) - A Severna Park student's suspension and a case involving two Talbot County lacrosse players last month have focused attention on the zero-tolerance policies enforced by some school systems in Maryland. Such disciplinary policies are being criticized by experts and parents, who say they punish students too harshly for small infractions.

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Western to review graduation policy

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Erica L. Green - May. 16 (News) - Western's longstanding practice of preventing students who have been accepted to two-year colleges from participating in the school's graduation ceremony is not common in the city. None of the city's other college-preparatory schools, such as City College, Polytechnic Institute and Dunbar High School, have a similar practice.

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Engaging the Community

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - May. 16 (News Analysis) - Many schools across the country are offering, or requiring, that students do work outside of their campuses out in the community. We take a look at two local programs.

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Md. Teacher Finalist For Regis, Kelly's Teacher Of Year Title

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:46:00 -0700

WBAL-TV - May. 12 (News) - A Baltimore teacher is in the running for top teacher of the year on NBC's "Live! With Regis and Kelly." Stacey Carver is a special education teacher at Renaissance Academy in Baltimore.

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Cuts to Maryland scholarship program affect 350 high school seniors

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Yeganeh June Torbati, Childs Walker - May. 10 (News) - The cuts will take away the annual scholarships from 350 seniors who plan to attend a Maryland college or university. Students already attending Maryland institutions and receiving the annual scholarship will not be affected. The state savings for 2012 will be about $1 million.

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Walk out held in support of principal

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WMAR-TV - By Paul Jaffe - May. 09 (News) - An estimated 200 students at Aberdeen High School held a school walk out this morning in support of their principal that has supposedly been demoted.

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Park Heights Jewish school to close at end of academic year

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Eileen Ambrose - May. 08 (News) - Yeshivat Rambam, the financially struggling modern Orthodox Jewish day school in Baltimore, announced Sunday night that it would be closing its doors at the end of the academic year.

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Gibbons Students Get Pin For Graduation

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WBAL Radio - By Robert Lang - May. 06 (News) - It has been about a year since the Archdiocese of Baltimore closed Cardinal Gibbons High School as part of a consolidation of schools. Seventy-two seniors would have graduated from the school this year had it remained open.

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Dulaney High School student to sit on state school board

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Explore Baltimore County - By Jay R. Thompson - May. 04 (News) - It was a meeting at the Panera Bread store in Timonium that helped seal the deal for a Dulaney High School junior in becoming the first student from Baltimore County Public Schools ever selected to serve on the Maryland State Board of Education.

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Western High student worries about college after school's application missteps

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Erica L. Green - May. 02 (News) - Cherry Abdou is No. 2 in her class and has a transcript of mostly Advanced Placement and honors courses. But, after applying to 12 colleges, she was perplexed to receive nine rejections and one waitlist notification. Her school, Western High, revealed last week that it is investigating cases involving at least a dozen students whose college applications may have been complete because the staff failed to send pertinent documents — and her case is among those being examined.

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Student-athletes learn about domestic violence

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz Bowie - Apr. 29 (News) - A year after college lacrosse player Yeardley Love was killed and her ex-boyfriend was arrested in her death, Baltimore-area high school athletes from private and public schools were told they should intervene if they suspect a friend may be in trouble.

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