2 Baltimore private schools donate $700K for roads 
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, Bryn Mawr School, gilman school, maryland, Northern Parkway, private schools, Roland Park Civic League
Two prestigious Baltimore private schools are donating a total of $700,000 to help fund street improvements and “continued maintenance” along city streets in the historic Roland Park community. Gilman School and Bryn Mawr School are donating $350,000 each toward the effort that will include placement of a new traffic light on Northern Parkway to help [...]
GOP blocks Senate debate on Democrats’ student loan bill
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 8, 2012
Tags: bill, democrat, GOP, Government, obama, senate, student loan, washington
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Tuesday to preserve low interest rates for millions of college students’ loans, as the two parties engaged in election-year choreography aimed at showing each is the better protector of families in today’s rugged economy. The 52-45 vote to begin debating the legislation fell eight votes short of [...]
Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 7, 2012
Tags: college, democrats, department of education, domestic violence, Economy, export-import bank, families, federal budget, gov. mitt romney, interest rates, medicare, payroll taxes, president barack obama, recess, republicans, sen. jack reed, senate, social security, stafford loans, student loans, transportation programs, vice president joe biden, Violence Against Women Act
WASHINGTON — The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other. With Congress returning from a weeklong spring recess, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on whether to start debating a Democratic plan to keep college loan interest [...]
Obama renews push for student loan rate freeze
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 4, 2012
Tags: college students, Congress, democrats, election, health care spending, interest rates, loans, president barack obama, republicans, subsidized student loans
ARLINGTON, Va. — President Barack Obama says college students shouldn’t have to pay higher interest rates on their loans just because Congress can’t get its act together. Obama is speaking to students and parents at a high school in Virginia, a general election battleground state. He called on Congress to keep interest rates on subsidized [...]
GOP ignores veto threat, passes student loan bill
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 27, 2012
Tags: bill, club for growth, Economy, health care program, house minority leader nancy pelosi, House Speaker John Boehner, legislation, president obama, republican, senate, slush fund, student loan, veto, white house
WASHINGTON — Republicans ignored a veto threat and overcame a rebellion by party conservatives to push a bill through the House Friday keeping interest rates on millions of federal student loans from doubling this summer. Lawmakers voted 215-195 to approve a bill that has become an election-year battle between the two parties over helping families [...]
Audit examines Baltimore City Community College
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 26, 2012
Tags: audit, Baltimore, baltimore city community college, Education, maryland, University of Maryland
ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland legislative audit shows that officials at Baltimore City Community College failed to properly handle funds and collect student account balances. The report released Thursday shows that college representatives could not explain a $200,000 payment from the University of Maryland BioPark where the school leases space. According to the audit, the payment [...]
Weich named new dean of UB Law
BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: April 25, 2012
Tags: alfredo p. garcia, capitol hill, dean, finalist, michele e. gilman, nichoals allard, patricia salkin, patton boggs, penelope bryan, phillip j. closius, president barack obama, ronald weich, sen. edward m. kennedy, sen. harry reid, u.s. attorney general, UB President Robert L. Bogomolny, university of baltimore law school, zuckerman spaeder
Ronald Weich will go from lobbying legislators on Capitol Hill to navigating the political inroads of the university system after the University of Baltimore School of Law named him as its new dean this week. Weich, who comes from a political and government background, is being heralded by school officials as a non-traditional choice that [...]
Engineer pushes to create bike lanes in Salisbury
BY: The Daily Times of Salisbury
POSTED: April 20, 2012
Tags: awb engineers, bicycle, bike lanes, commuters, engineer, maryland, matt drew, safety, salisbury, students
SALISBURY — If Matt Drew gets his wish, Salisbury might soon have bike lanes connecting the downtown area and the Salisbury University campus. Drew, executive vice president of AWB Engineers, said city roads are difficult, even dangerous, for cyclists to navigate and could see many improvements if the lanes were created. Drew said studies show [...]
College student returns to Maryland to shoot film
BY: The Frederick-News Post
POSTED: April 20, 2012
Tags: alden tuck, film, maryland, movie, new york university, walkersville
WALKERSVILLE — Alden Tuck lives in one of the largest, most creatively charged cities in the world. But when the New York University student needed inspiration for a short film, he got it from his rural hometown. A 2008 Walkersville High School graduate, the 21-year-old expects to graduate in May. The movie he is working [...]
Lillian Lowery named Md. schools superintendent
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 20, 2012
Tags: Lillian Lowery, maryland, Maryland State Board of Education, Nancy Grasmick, State Superintendent Bernard Sadusky, superintendent
Delaware Secretary of Education Lillian Lowery has been chosen to be Maryland’s next state superintendent of schools, officials announced Friday. Lowery has been Delaware’s secretary of education since 2009. She is known for facilitating a broad-based statewide strategic planning and grant application process that resulted in Delaware’s selection as the first state to be awarded [...]
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