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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.
This story has been updated to reflect changes in the number of COVID-19 cases on campus and in Allegany County. After spending three days…
Although educational disparities already existed for Black, Latino and low-income Maryland students before the COVID-19 pandemic, they have only gotten more jarring since classes…
The proposed Eastern Shore Pipeline Project, which would bring fracked natural gas from Delaware into Somerset County, runs primarily through low-income communities of color,…
Some low-income children in Maryland who are eligible for free school breakfasts have not been receiving them, according to a report that the group…
More than three-quarters of Maryland educators do not think that schools will be able to reopen safely for full in-person learning for the next…
All Maryland public schools began the academic year virtually, and many have started to transition some students back into school buildings for in-person learning….
Local school leaders and health officials told state lawmakers Wednesday that they want more statewide coordination and guidance with the state superintendent and governor…
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with comments from a representative with Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. Two counties on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore,…
A Maryland high school student whose family moved to Bethesda after a mass shooting at her father’s former workplace will serve on the national…
An undocumented immigrant who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on the grounds of a Montgomery County church last month…