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Elizabeth Shwe was a Report for America corps member at Maryland Matters through May 2022. She previously covered California state politics during an internship at The Sacramento Bee. She is a 2020 graduate of Princeton University with a degree in political science. At Princeton she was a producer for WPRB 103.3 FM News & Culture section, the station’s only long form podcast-type program. Shwe also wrote for The Daily Princetonian, and tutored with the Petey Greene Program, which offers free tutoring to incarcerated people.
The Maryland State Board of Education voted unanimously on Thursday to approve Mohammed Choudhury to replace Karen B. Salmon as the State Superintendent of…
Maryland spends up to $1 billion on teacher professional development every year, but there is little to no data showing that teachers improve in…
A month after passing a resolution directing all schools to return to in-person learning for a full 180-day school year starting in the fall, a…
While 99% of Marylanders and 80% of Virginians live within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, only 30% of people living in Pennsylvania do. Because there…
The presiding officers of the General Assembly announced their appointments to the Blueprint for Maryland Future’s Accountability and Implementation Board Nominating Committee on Wednesday….
In an effort to reduce carbon emissions faster, Maryland lawmakers introduced a bill this year to promote the use of geothermal energy — one…
As climate change leads to hotter days across the country, the cost of cooling public school buildings grows higher. New research estimates that more…
A work group met for the first time Thursday to develop recommendations for alternative safety measures to replace armed officers in Montgomery County Public…
At first glance, the picture for women seeking high office in Maryland looks grim: There are no Democratic women running for governor in 2022….
A $430 million project that aims to curtail 80% of Baltimore City’s sewage overflows into the Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay was formally completed…