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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.
Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill that would establish specific parameters for virtual schools offered by local school districts after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Advocates and lawmakers pushed for a comprehensive climate bill on Tuesday that would take significant steps to reduce emissions from buildings and set the state’s…
The Maryland Senate confirmed members of an education reform oversight panel Tuesday morning after Republicans sought to delay the appointments, citing concerns about geographic…
A day before a major deadline, Maryland’s education reform oversight board on Monday approved a new timeline.
As child care providers recover from the pandemic, state legislators are introducing a raft of bills, with the support of both presiding officers, that aim to bolster child care capacity in Maryland.
In his bid to become Maryland’s next governor, former U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr. (D) and his running mate Michelle Siri are…
In December, the state board approved an emergency regulation creating “off-ramps” to the mask mandate that has been in place since the beginning of the school year.
PFAS, a group of more than 9,000 chemicals, are often referred to as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down in the environment, including in human bodies.
Marylanders who get a COVID-19 booster will be automatically entered to win a cash prize.
The bill’s re-introduction comes after federal investigators found that Frederick County schools improperly restrained or secluded students more than 7,250 times.