Category: Education

April 23, 2008

Head count of illegals in Frederick Co. schools?

WBAL.com
Frederick County Commissioner Lennie Thompson has proposed that next year’s county school system funding be based on a good-faith effort by the school board to count the number of students with questionable immigration status.

He says the count would …

April 22, 2008

UMBC sued by pro-life group over free speech zones

Filed under: Higher Ed, UMBC, Baltimore County, Legal News - 22 Apr 2008

The Retriever Weekly
An attorney acting on behalf of UMBC’s pro-life student organization, Rock for Life, hopes their lawsuit filed against UMBC will cause the school’s speech zone and speech code policies to be declared unconstitutional and force university officials …

April 14, 2008

Baltimore City wants to make businesses enforce truancy laws?

Filed under: Education, Business, Government, Baltimore City - 14 Apr 2008

WBAL.com
A Baltimore City Councilwoman wants to ban restaurant and stores from serving students before school.

Currently, businesses are not allowed to wait on students unaccompanied by a parent or adult from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on school days or …

March 30, 2008

Proposed Congressional Bowl in DC signs Navy, ACC

Filed under: College Football, USNA - 30 Mar 2008

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Bill Wagner
The proposed Congressional Bowl took a major step toward becoming a reality on Monday when it signed an agreement with the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Sean Metcalf, co-founder of the District of Columbia Bowl Commission, …

March 27, 2008

Beaten UMBC student speaks

Filed under: Crime, UMBC, Baltimore City, clubs - 27 Mar 2008

WJZ
he college student attacked during a fight in a Fells Point bar tells her side of the story, hours after she’s released from the hospital.

Earica Flood doesn’t understand why she was attacked and why no one called an ambulance. …

March 25, 2008

UMBC student beaten in Fell’s Point bar

Filed under: UMBC, Baltimore City, bars - 25 Mar 2008

WBAL TV
A UMBC student is recovering at a hospital after she was attacked at a bar in Fells Point over the weekend.

Earica Flood, 22, was attacked early Sunday morning at Cheerleaders Bar on Broadway near the square in Fells …

Regents expected to raise college room and board

Filed under: Higher Ed, Maryland Government - 25 Mar 2008

WBAL.com
Wednesday morning the Committee on Finance of the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents will meet at UMBC and proposed increases in room and board and parking will be presented.

A preliminary decision will be made and then …

March 18, 2008

Terps win in NIT

Filed under: College Sports, College Hoops, UMCP - 18 Mar 2008

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The Maryland Terrapins defeated the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the first round of the NIT tonight by a final score of 68-58. The Terps will face the Syracuse Orange in the next round.

Mt. St. Mary’s gets by Coppin State in NCAAs

Filed under: Sports, College Sports, College Hoops, Higher Ed - 18 Mar 2008

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Mt. St. Mary’s won the play-in game with the Coppin State Eagles in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament tonight in Dayton by a final score of 69-60. The Mount will now face the #1 seed North …

March 5, 2008

Release: Hickey School Bill 995

From an email by Del. Joseph Boteler
As many have asked about House Bill 995, entitled Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School - Cessation of Operations - Transfer of Property, I would like to clarify the intentions of this bill. House …

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