Arlington County Public Schools is planning to build two new elementary schools -- the first new schools since the 1990s -- to handle the booming enrollment that's straining the small district.
Superintendent Pat Murphy
An elementary school teacher in Prince William County was arrested for allegedly assaulting a student, police said.
Cynthia Farris Hall, 35, from Woodbridge, was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault and battery, Prince William Police said. She
Approximately 85 of Maryland's religious organizations, schools and neighborhood groups are banding together to fight for state legislation known as the Dream Act, which would allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition.
Maryland officials voted Wednesday to spend an additional $161.5 million on school construction projects, bringing the total to $349.2 million for the upcoming school year.
That's a 32 percent bump over the current
The District is changing the rules governing its teacher evaluations, encouraging public schools to reduce the emphasis on standardized test scores when rating their teachers.
The Office of the State Superintendent of
D.C. officials are considering moving school security in-house, after running into continual problems with contracting companies over the years.
The District's auditor estimated Tuesday that 291
Montgomery County teachers and other school employees are set to receive pay raises of 3.4 percent next school year, including some of the paychecks they missed when salaries were frozen in the past few years.
But the
Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off.
Stanley rolls around
The admissions director for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is investigating how the admissions process at the elite Alexandria magnet school allowed so many struggling students into its freshman class,
Federal education officials say they have "significant concerns" about the District's efforts to get out from under a law requiring all public school students to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.
