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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.
Black students in Maryland are consistently suspended from school and arrested on school grounds at higher rates than any other racial group. The Maryland…
Maryland’s child care providers are struggling to stay afloat, suffering significant losses in revenue due to closures forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, members of…
University System of Maryland leaders announced Friday that they will freeze tuition and room-and-board rates for all students next year. The system’s dozen campuses…
The Chesapeake Bay will have a smaller “dead zone,” or an area of little to no oxygen, this year, researchers say. When excess nutrients,…
An advisory commission of 13 Northeastern states has approved a recommendation to the Environmental Protection Agency that Pennsylvania’s power plants, whose emissions have been…
The deadline for Maryland schools and restaurants to stop using polystyrene foam food containers and cups has been extended from July 1 to Oct….
U.S. Rep. David J. Trone (D-Md.) has introduced a bill that would remove the requirement to inform employers of a job applicant’s previous criminal…
In late May, the state released data from a survey on how students in Maryland’s local school districts were engaging with distance learning since…
As the academic year comes to a close, the state of Maryland has been working on plans for reopening schools for the upcoming year….
A statewide poll shows that educators, parents and voters are universally concerned about distance learning. Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close in…