McDaniel College gets $100k grant from Nora Roberts

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 7, 2012
Tags: creative writing, doctor of letters, donation, Education, hoover library, McDaniel College, nora roberts, romance fiction, westminster

Author Nora Roberts has given a second consecutive $100,000 grant to McDaniel College in Westminster. The liberal arts college said the latest grant will support its academic minor in romance fiction and an online creative writing course on the subject.
Officials said the American romance collection in the Hoover Library, which has established McDaniel as one [...]

Anne Arundel schools tap Delaware arts director

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 6, 2012
Tags: anne arundel county public schools, clear space theatre company, delaware, doug yetter, ken skrzesz, rehoboth beach, scrooge, wiley h. bates middle school

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — After eight years of helping develop, nurture and guide one of the most successful arts organizations in Delaware, Ken Skrzesz, co-founder and executive director of Clear Space Theatre Company, has stepped down to accept a position with Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
“While I am heartbroken about leaving Clear Space and the [...]

McDaniel College breaks ground on new stadium

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 3, 2012
Tags: bair stadium, coaches' rooms, concessions, field hockey, football, grandstand, lacrosse, McDaniel College, mcdaniel hall, seating, Sports, tailgating, track and field

McDaniel College is breaking ground on a new multipurpose stadium.

Officials in Westminster will use a shovel first used in 1922 at the groundbreaking of McDaniel Hall to kick off the project on Friday at Bair Stadium.
The stadium will be used for several sports, including football, women’s field hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse and men’s and [...]

Salisbury completes $40M fundraising campaign 

BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: February 3, 2012
Tags: alumni, campaign, contributions, Education, fundraising, great recession, maryland, Perdue family, Rosemary Thomas, salisbury, students, Teacher Education and Technology Center, university, vice president of University Advancement

More than 23,000 donors helped Salisbury University raise nearly $40 million in its just-completed six-year fundraising campaign, well above the school’s $25 million goal.
“We didn’t just ask the million dollar donors to invest. We asked all the alumni of this institution to invest, and we asked the community to invest,” said Rosemary Thomas, vice president [...]

Tablets help Baltimore high school students get ready for business 

BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: January 31, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore county public schools, Business, Liberty Elementary School, maryland, Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, Mobile Learning Lab, morgan state university, schools, tablets, Technology

As school administrators look for ways to boost academics through interactive technology, business leaders say there’s another advantage to putting more gadgets into students’ hands: it replicates the business world.
“We don’t go into a meeting where people aren’t sitting around with their tablets,” said June Streckfus, executive director of the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, [...]

UM launches new environmental research center

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, economists, engineers, Environment, gov. martin o'malley, national socio-environmental synthesis center, sen. barbara mikulski, University of Maryland
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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland officials are launching a new kind of environmental and policy center.
Gov. Martin O’Malley and Sen. Barbara Mikulski will be among the officials celebrating the University of Maryland’s National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center on Monday in Annapolis.
The center aims to bring together experts from many fields, including engineers, economists and social and computational scientists, [...]

Baltimore schools CEO Alonso pitches plan to borrow $1.2B

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 25, 2012
Tags: andres alonso, Annapolis, baltimore public schools, baltimore schools, bottle tax, CEO, construction, Education, senate budget and taxation

ANNAPOLIS — The chief executive officer of Baltimore’s public schools has told state lawmakers that he hopes to borrow $1.2 billion to overhaul the city’s public school buildings.
Andres Alonso spoke Tuesday to the Senate Budget and Taxation committee, telling members that the plan could save the city time and money by combining the repairs into [...]

Counties struggling to meet education funding goals

BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: January 23, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, Department of Legislative Services, Education, funding, goals, gov. martin o'malley, House Appropriations and Ways and Means

ANNAPOLIS — As counties struggle to meet their education funding requirements under the state’s maintenance of effort program, legislators wonder if shifting teacher pension costs under Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget plan would make a difference.
The topic came up during a briefing on maintenance of effort funds and K-12 education held Friday afternoon jointly by the [...]

O’Malley discusses shift of pension costs

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 17, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, calvert, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, maryland senate, maryland teacher pensions, maryland teachers, michael busch, school construction, teacher pensions, teachers, thomas v. mike miller

ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley discussed plans Tuesday with legislative leaders to shift teacher pension costs to Maryland counties and reduce tax exemptions for high-end earners, participants in the meeting said.
Maryland is one of the few states in the nation that picks up the entire teacher pension cost, which is projected to be about $900 [...]

Maryland announces six Blue Ribbon Schools

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 17, 2012
Tags: anne arundel, Baltimore, blue ribbon, blue ribbon schools program, Education, harford, interim state superintendent of schools bernard sadusky, maryland, maryland schools, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, worcester county

Six public schools have been selected as Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools.
The names of the schools were announced Tuesday. They are: Crofton Meadows Elementary School in Anne Arundel County, Woodholme Elementary School in Baltimore County, Ring Factory Elementary School in Harford County, Rachel Carson Elementary School in Montgomery County, Whitehall Elementary School in Prince George’s County [...]