There’s no escaping the depths of this disaster for our schoolchildren, our state and our country.
No one familiar with schools throughout Maryland doubts that grading and promotion/retention issues exist statewide to one degree or another.
Federation of labor unions opposes Senate Bill 794 which would remove MSDE employee protections. The bill undoes previous work to professionalize the department, its president writes.
By Kalman R. Hettleman The writer is a member of the Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education – the Kirwan Commission, a…
Maryland lawmakers and education leaders say they are looking forward to a reinvigoration of the state’s public school system with the announcement of a…
Ronald Reagan made famous the punchline, “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”…
As Elizabeth Shwe reported last week in Maryland Matters, an emergency bill introduced by Senate President Bill Ferguson requires a consultant study of the…
Part two of two. To borrow from Mark Twain’s quip about the weather, almost everyone in the General Assembly complains bitterly that the Maryland…
Part one of two. There’s rare agreement among educators and policymakers that learning loss must be the paramount priority as schools try to recover…
COVID-19 and the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter movements for racial and economic justice are exposing the shortcomings in the Blueprint for Maryland’s…