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Baltimore County Magnet Schools

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Patapsco High Senior Wins Poster Contest

Senior Safiya Brown advances to national contest; senior Caleb Harrison earns honorable mention in local competition.

Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts senior Safiya Brown will graduate in June, but she will continue to have a visible presence in Baltimore County Public Schools all next school year. The art student designed a poster and entered it in Baltimore County's magnet school poster competition. Her entry was selected as the countywide winner, which means her artwork will be featured in next year's magnet publications, according to a statement from the school. Brown also advances to the national magnet school poster contest, which is sponsored by Magnet Schools of America. The national winner receives a cash prize and has his or her artwork reproduced in national publications produced by the magnet school association. The big winner will…

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Dance Further Delays Magnet School Rule Decision

A Baltimore County Public Schools spokesman said the superintendent will need more time to study a rule which does away with priority placement for students with siblings in magnet programs.

Baltimore County families waiting on a decision about a controversial magnet school rule change will have to hold out for a good while longer. Shortly before the end of his tenure, former Superintendent Joe Hairston announced in April 2012 the end of a rule that granted kindergartners automatic admission into elementary magnet schools their siblings attend, starting in the 2015-2016 school year. Parents of affected students appealed to Superintendent Dallas Dance soon afterward to overturn the rule change. Dance said in August 2012 that he planned to make a recommendation to the Board of Education about the rule in February, but school system spokesman Mychael Dickerson said Wednesday that it will likely take another year before a decision…

Lily

9:08 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013

If he uses the time very very wisely, he might just be able to get rid of sibling placement and do it in a way no one will care. After all sibling placement only matters if there are waiting lists. When anyone who wants to go to a magnet school can then sibling priority placement is mute. If in the "delay" time he cures the problem of overcrowding in Towson such that CVE and Lutherville no longer…   more ›

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