County schools Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell has challenged schools across the county to raise the bar this year and better 2010’s record level of donations to the American Cancer Society’s […]
The county Board of Education has scheduled a public briefing and a public hearing on Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell’s recommendation to redistrict elementary schools on Fort George G. Meade to […]
When I arrived as Superintendent in 2006, the top priority for our school system was unquestionably to eliminate the achievement gap. In fact, I stated emphatically in my first budget […]
School systems across Maryland, and the United States, for that matter, are hardly immune to controversies over the manner in which funding is spent. We are no different, so it […]
Everyone who glanced at the recent stories about our school system’s progress in meeting state targets as part of the No Child Left Behind legislation should have been disappointed by […]
Last Wednesday, our Board of Education put the finishing touches on what is a lean spending plan for the coming fiscal year, but one which I believe serves our students […]
Over the last several years, the County Council and our school system administration have spent a considerable amount of time trying to align our six-year Capital Improvement Plan in such […]
Our school system began a journey down an exciting new path earlier this month when the Board of Education approved an agreement with Imagine Global Village Academy for the county’s […]
The full value of any survey lies in its ability not only to indicate things an organization is doing right, but initiatives upon which respondents believe it should improve. Such […]