Gov. Martin O'Malley celebrated the achievement at an Anne Arundel County school.
Maryland schools were ranked the best in the nation for the fifth year in a row, according to a study released by Education Week. Gov. Martin O’Malley and other state and local officials celebrated the ranking at Jones Elementary School in Severna Park on Thursday afternoon. “There is no better investment than education,” O’Malley told the crowd at the school. “Thanks to tough choices and important priorities we made Maryland schools No. 1 for the fifth year in a row.” House Speaker Michael Busch (D-Annapolis) and Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association, also addressed the crowd Thursday. Busch said that he has two daughters in Anne Arundel County Public Schools and he is very proud of that. Click here to read …
The details aren't clear yet what the new state environmental literacy graduation requirements will mean for Annapolis schools.
Beginning next school year, incoming freshmen at Annapolis High School (AHS) will have additional graduation requirements involving environmental literacy. Yet, how students will fulfill those requirements is still being debated. When the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) announced the new requirements in September of last year, local environmental groups applauded the decision as an exciting trend that could be the basis for a national model. “We were excited about the new environmental literacy requirements and what they would mean for our students and their educational achievement," said Tom Zolper, spokesman for the Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The original regulation specified an environmental literacy …
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Dave Williams
11:33 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
If you rate schools as most people do, pupil achievement, Md is not even in the top 10. Just because we spend more per student, allow more beatings and fights in the class room, and grade on a feel good mark rather than test performance, does not land a school in first place except in this trash magazine. more ›