Wednesday, May 1, 2013
A Norwood Elementary School fifth-grader applied for a legislative scholarship—seven years early.
Every year, I am honored to join my colleagues from the sixth legislative district in attending the award ceremonies for the graduating seniors in our local high schools. While there, we join scores of community and civic organizations from around the district to distribute scholarships in support of our students planning to pursue higher education. It is especially rewarding to be able to support the hopes and dreams of some of the best and brightest we have. In fact, this is one of the most exciting times for me as your Delegate, as I have the opportunity to meet so many successful students and their proud families, and I get to support these students as they move on to the next stage of their lives. This year, the scholarship program…
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Baltimore County Board of Education hosted a public hearing Tuesday to allow residents to weigh in on the proposed closure of Eastwood Elementary Magnet School.
The crowd at Tuesday night's public hearing to discuss the proposed closure of Eastwood Elementary Magnet School was more quiet than those of recent meetings, but residents were no less passionate about the message they delivered to the Baltimore County Board of Education. "Keep Eastwood open" came across loud and clear from the majority of the nearly 30 speakers who signed up to address the board at the Dundalk High School gathering. With rare exception, the speakers were passionate and emotional about keeping the small, intimate, close-knit neighborhood school open, and the few people who spoke in favor of closing Eastwood and merging it with Norwood Elementary and Holabird Middle schools were school system employees. Linda Gossman, a …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Parents of students at Eastwood Elementary School, which faces the closure of its building, allege that the school system is acting unlawfully.
The Baltimore County Public Schools administration is refuting allegations from Eastwood Elementary School parents that it acted improperly in an effort to consolidate three Dundalk schools. The proposed merger between Eastwood, Holabird Middle School and Norwood Elementary School would result in the closure of Eastwood. "I feel like I was left out of the process," said Dan Ricci, an Eastwood parent, at a December Board of Education meeting. "I don't know if there were laws broken...certainly something unethical and unprofessional must have happened." Superintendent Dallas Dance recommended to the board at a Jan. 22 meeting that the three schools should operate as one kindergarten through eighth STEM magnet program at the Norwood and …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Parents from the Dundalk elementary school, which is slated for a merger with two other area schools, complained about communications from the school system.
Parents of students at Eastwood Elementary Magnet School in Dundalk packed a Tuesday night Board of Education meeting to say they felt duped by the school system. During a Dec. 10 meeting at Holabird Middle School, school officials broke the news to Dundalk families that they intend to merge Eastwood, Holabird and Norwood Elementary Schools. The process includes shutting down the Eastwood facility, although the school system denies this means the end of the school. The closure of the Eastwood facility is part of a larger plan by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz to sell property to construct new county buildings. The Eastwood property may be used for a new police precinct. "We feel betrayed," Eric Williams, an Eastwood parent, said to the …
Monday, December 17, 2012
Parents opposed to closure of Eastwood Elementary Magnet School will attend Tuesday's Baltimore County Board of Education meeting.
Stunned by what many believe to be an "out of the blue" decision to close Eastwood Elementary Magnet School, local parents plan to take their concerns to the Baltimore County Board of Education meeting Tuesday night. In a hastily called meeting held Dec. 10, Baltimore County Public Schools officials told parents of their plans to close Eastwood at the end of the current school year, and shared with them two options for their students' futures. The plan potentially affects Norwood Elementary and Holabird Middle schools in addition to Eastwood. Parents were told of two options on the table for the three schools. One would merge all three schools, creating a pre-K-8 academy that would be a magnet program for science, technology, engineering …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
One proposal would merge Eastwood and Norwood Elementary and Holabird Middle schools into a K-8 STEM academy.
About 150 Dundalk residents and school children attended a meeting Monday night at Holabird Middle School that addressed the futures of three Dundalk schools. Parents said they were notified of the meeting late last week and were given little information as to what it was about. The meeting was called to discuss a potential reorganization of Eastwood Elementary Magnet, Norwood Elementary and Holabird Middle schools. At its end, some parents thought school officials delivered mixed messages. School system Deputy Superintendent Kevin Hobbs told those gathered that no school was being closed, but parents said they heard something completely different. "Nothing's being shut down, nothing's being lost, we're not losing a school," Hobbs told the…
Buzz Beeler
3:28 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Tim, did you pass that information onto Marge about the assault? There should be a report filed. Sorry this comment took awhile, have been busy. more ›